Jack Heiter

Return to the Morning Calm Jack Heiter

RETURN TO THE MORNING CALM An American Korean War Veteran, returns to Seoul thirty years after the war and accidently meets a young Korean woman he believes to be his daughter. Searching for enemy in abandoned farmhouses in the Korean countryside during the Korean War, eighteen-year-old American soldier, Greg Strickland, finds frightened sixteen-year-old Hun Sook, hiding in an old clay stove. Seeing that she is starving, he provides her with C-rations and decides not to report her to his commander. He brings her food and clothing on his free time and they become closer and eventually fall in love. One day on patrol, he encounters an enemy soldier hiding in another farmhouse that shoots him in the stomach. His buddies rush him to a field hospital where he is treated and sent back to America, leaving him with only memories of his love for Hun Sook. Thirty years later Greg returns to Seoul as a consultant to a large Korean Architectural firm and is befriended by Kim who is assigned to assist him. Seeing how amazed Greg is at the changes in modern Korea, Kim offers to show him around Seoul. On one of their outings they come upon an antique shop that has an old hand woven basket that catches Greg