The story begins with a family's migration from California to an uninhabited area. This is not the first time they have migrated. The two came to the United States from South Korea, and then moved from American cities to American countryside. They were chasing the footsteps of redemption. Because life in South Korea is too hard, they come to the United States, eager to find a place to live in the vast land of the United States. Because work in the city is meaningless, the male host wants to go to the countryside to develop a farm of his own and find his own value from it. But one detail worth noting is that he initially said that he wanted to build a garden, but after he started, he said that he wanted to develop a farm. This detail can reveal that the male protagonist may still be uncertain about what his dream is. The garden is a completely ideal place, because the garden carries more the satisfaction of the spiritual world; while the farm is more materialized and commercialized, and can achieve material wealth.
The male owner is eager to realize his dream through the farm, but the realization of this dream is not easy. He has experienced many ups and downs in the middle. Every time, there is an accident when it seems that he is about to succeed, which makes people exhausted. The film also shows the hostess's dissatisfaction with the status quo while highlighting the difficulties experienced by the male host in the construction of the farm and in the middle. She is dissatisfied with the crudeness of the living environment, the remoteness of the living location, and the fact that the male host is immersed in the construction of the dream garden and neglects the consideration of family. Living too far is not good for the growth of the two children, and it is not conducive to the safety of the youngest son with heart disease. There is no one to look after the two children, and the two children have no friends to play with. The two found a solution after an argument, and the hostess' mother came to the United States to help take care of the two children. The arrival of the hostess' mother brought great psychological comfort to the hostess, but life was not always smooth sailing. The old man suddenly fell ill, which gave the hostess the idea of leaving this place. In the last part of the film, the male protagonist finally found the consignee, but the female protagonist decided to leave him, but then an accident happened, so everything had to be restarted from scratch.
The film revolves around the American dream of the male and female protagonists. Although the two initially came to a strange land away from home to pursue a happy life, in the process of pursuit, the two gradually diverged. The male protagonist is eager to realize this dream by running a farm, while the female protagonist just wants the family to live in a convenient place where the family can rely on each other. The emergence of differences seems to have reached a fork in the two people's initial dreams, but thinking about it carefully, it is actually just the same destination. The male protagonist wants to improve the material foundation of the family, so that the family can live a prosperous life without having to do boring work every day. The heroine's idea has no practical point of operation, and has a deep obsession with the results of family members together. In fact, when the two of them decided to fight in a foreign country, the dream that initially prompted them to leave Korea had already come true, but they didn't realize it. After arriving in the town, the family supported each other and even David's illness was getting better. It's just that they concretize their dreams into realistic conditions, which makes them ignore the happiness that exists in their current life. At the end of the movie, the male protagonist invites the man who drilled the well for him in the first place to start running the farm again. Their pursuit of their dreams has not stopped, but life will be different.
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