Years pass in the last few scenes. Woo-sung is being taken care by the detective on So-young’s insistence. The prospective parents also meet the boy occasionally. Detective writes to So-young, (Dong-soo and Hae-jin too), asking her to come to the park on several days, although she hasn’t. But looking at a locker picture of them all together, she goes to the park and starts searching… and that’s the end.
It could be that they are all a family now, as Dong-soo wanted, and they want to care for Woo-sung. A car which picked up a grown Hae-jin has the same picture as with So-young, so it can be a possibility.
Talking to Hollywood Reporter, director Hirokazu Kore-eda says about the abandonment that “…these children grow up asking themselves a fundamental question, which is: Is it okay that I was born? Was I supposed to have been born?… I was thinking, what do I want to say with this film to the people who grew up with this experience?”
