WAKE ME UP WHEN THE MOURNING ENDS

A single mother returns to her hometown to attend the ritual marking the end of the three-year mourning period for her late fiancé. As she seeks acceptance and reconciliation with the family, she wants to take her boy from the family.

YAN returns to her hometown for a traditional ritual marking the third anniversary of her fiancé HUNG’s death. Since Hung’s passing, their two-year-old son has been raised by his family, and Yan hopes to reconnect with the child. She is determined to show that she has recovered from depression and is ready to take responsibility for her son. As her strained relationship with Hung’s mother, CHOO, gradually softens, Yan finally confesses her intention: she wants to take the boy back and start a new life with another man. Choo is stunned. To her, raising the child has been a way to keep her son alive; letting him go feels like losing Hung all over again. While the rest of the family has moved on, both women remain caught in grief—one unable to release the past, the other desperate to move forward.