CHAE is the main character’s grandmother. To be more precise, it’s her surname. Finding CHAE depicts Mayumi’s journey in Korea, as she mourns her grandmother who gradually lost her memories in her later years and passed away while wanting to return to her hometown. Born in 1921, CHAE Ok-sun moved to Japan when she was young, and worked to support her entire family. A third-generation Korean-Japanese Mayumi wants to find her grandmother's family grave and her history, in attempt to understand her on a deeper level. The path that Mayumi and her Korean friends walk on goes through the village and thick genealogy of her grandfather's family and eventually leads to CHAE’s grave. As Mayumi puts it, this is a “partial success”, but the complicated mind and the shadowy history of women piled up in the meantime leave a ruthful feeling. Finding CHAE is a heartwarming film that knocks on the shell that covers a woman's life.​