Confronting half of her mother’s life—her mother who had survived the Jeju April 3 Incident—the director tries to scoop out disappearing memories. A tale of family, which carries on from Dear Pyongyang (YIDFF 2005), carving out the cruelty of history, and questioning the precarious existence of the nation-state.
Dating expert Chelsey is determined to break her so-called “curse” of always getting dumped during the holiday season. But when fate reunites her with a former flame from high school, she wonders if her bad luck might just be the universe’s way of leading