Chuk Nam-yong is young student in Seoul. He dreams of making his debut by producing an art film by himself.? Jee Yeonkyu, his younger colleague from the same film school, also produces a feature art film around the same time. Chuk Nam-yong pretends not to care. Deep inside, however, he is actually obsessed with the competition to beat Yeonkyu.'s worse, other colleagues seem to compare Nam-yong and Yeonkyu as male and female directors in potential competition.? During the pre-production, Nam-yong delegates most of the work to his assistant director and spends most of his time trying to convince the actress to appear in his great movie.? After a while, Yeonkyu's art movie is selected by an international film festival. However, Nam-yong's production is suspended even before it can start because his father can't give him the money he has promised. and insulted, Nam-young attends the screening of Yeonkyu's movie. He then makes a scene, a rampage, at the after party.

TITLE expresses the relationship between auteur cinema and Buddhist philosophy through images and narrative. movie illustrates how the superficial image we see is different from its true substance. To this end, TITLE builds its theme through a series of intentional contrasts and contradictions. main character, Chuk Nam-yong, follows the Buddhist idea that everything comes in circles, but he does the exact opposite in his real life. the unchurched Chuk Nam-yong's home, a Buddhist painting hangs. It's Shim-woo-do, a depiction of a shepherd looking for cows. It illustrates a process of a man's enlightenment to recover his true nature. Nam-yong's life is a constant struggle to compete with others and perfect his movie. In this process, he goes through the ten stages depicted in the Buddhist painting, which becomes an allegory of an ignorant man becoming an enlightened Bodhisattva. this movie, the characters of an assistant director and a female lead in Chuk Nam-yong's movie are played by one actress. This also plays in part as as a Buddhist worldview that all things and phenomena we see come into existence when different relationships build harmony. They change and disappear when conditions change. such, all the relationships in our society are illusory and do not really exist. TITLE captures the life of Chuk Nam-yong, a cinema person who can never escape from the illusion of 'film' and 'cinema.'