Before the Storm) is a 2010 South Korean film, directed by Cho Chang-ho as both a love story and a character drama.

After several failed attempts to escape and prove his innocence, he hears that prisoners with AIDS can be freed on compassionate grounds.

Sang-byung helps the desperate Su-in to escape on condition he pays a visit to a certain remote café by the coast in Jeju Island.

With no hope of clearing his name and nowhere to turn, Su-in goes to café Luth, run by Mia, a beautiful magician with a painful past of her own.

Mia ends up hiring Su-in as a chef, and the two slowly grow closer, knowing that their time together is limited.