Chang-ho lives with his mute sister and grandfather at the border between North Korea and China. He once made friends with a Korean refugee who was around the same age with him. They bonded to play the soccer together. The two boys stroke a beautiful friendship until another North Korean escapee raped Chang-ho's sister. He imputed it on his North Korean boy and fought with him. However, his friend's father was caught by the Chinese police because of taking North Korea immigrants to China illegally. Chang-ho's friend thus reported the North Korea guy to the police and at the moment that the policeman was about to take the North Korea into the police car, Chang-ho climbed on the roof of a waste school and suicide. As a film stresses sensitive issue, Dooman River is different from its similar due to its narrative and distinctive perspective which leads the story into the average people's daily life, reflects the harsh life condition of North Korean and the tense relationship among the average people of China, North Korea and South Korea instead of from a political perspective.
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