"Don't Call Me Ma'am" centers on three 41-year-old female friends each confronting unique personal and professional crossroads. Cho Na Jeong, a former top-earning TV home shopping host, now a full-time housewife, aims for an ambitious career comeback, hoping to regain her past success and high salary. Koo Ju Yeong, a planning manager at an art center, projects an image of a perfect life, but privately battles the emotional toll of infertility while married to an asexual husband. Their single friend, Lee Il Ri, a successful deputy editor-in-chief for a fashion magazine, finds professional fulfillment but still dreams of marriage, a personal goal yet to be realized. This compelling narrative explores their individual quests for identity, love, and professional resurgence, as they navigate the challenges of being women in their early forties. They are united by their refusal to be confined by age or societal expectations, striving to write their own rules for life.
Other names: Daeum Saengeun Eopeunikkayo, Almost Forty: The Chaos, Thirty Niners, 다음 생은 없으니까요, Because There Is No Next Life, No Next Lif