JEDDAH: “Marathon”, a true story about love, relationships and succeeding against all odds, was Korea’s feature film screened at the 2nd Asian Film Festival here on Wednesday night. The 117-minute film, directed by Yoon-Cheol Jeong and starring Seung woo-Jo and Mi sook-Kim, is the moving story about an autistic boy, Cho Won, and his codependent relationship with his mother. The mother is frustrated by the fact that Cho Won is not normal. One day, she tries to lose him at an outing to the zoo, but she becomes guilt-ridden at her own insensitive actions and when she finds him again she vows to always protect him and stay by his side. As he grows up, she becomes extremely overprotective of him. There lives become so intertwined that she cannot live without him and he cannot live without her. In the course of time, the mother realizes that Cho Won has a talent for running, so she sets a goal for him to run the Chuncheon Marathon.