Written and directed by first-time director Jung Sung-il, a well regarded film critic-turned-director, it is a contemplation on love and heartbreak largely based on two works of literature - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther and Fyodor Dostoyevsky's White Nights.
[1][2][3][4][5] Young-soo (Shin Ha-kyun), a music teacher, has an affair with his student's mother, Mi-yeon (Moon Jeong-hee).
Later, Young-soo meets a young woman Sun-hwa (Jung Yu-mi) by chance, who is waiting for her lover (Kim Sang-kyung) on the bridge for a year.
Just when she decides to give up thinking that her lover does not love her anymore, he suddenly appears on the bridge.
Cafe Noir was screened for a full year at various events of the festival circuit before it was given a domestic release in late December 2010.