Kim Ryun-hee, a North Korean housewife, was forced to come to South Korea and became its citizen against her will. Though her seven years of struggle to go back to her family in North Korea continues, political absurdity hinders her journey back to her loved ones. The life of her family in the North goes on in emptiness, and she fears that she might become a nobody, like a shadow, who exists only in the fading memory of her family.

Kim Ryun-hee is trapped between the South and the North Koreas. Following her struggle to go back to her family in the North, I realized that our understanding of the so-called North Korean defectors was too simplistic. The end of journey for these people did not consequently lead to a “happy-ending story” in South Korea. They are still drifting on the still-cold river of division, disconnected both from the North and the South. Thus, I wanted to raise awareness about this absurdity that hinders a basic human desire to be together with his/her own loved ones. Kim often thinks of how wonderful it would be if all these things were possible. She says, "Freedom, material and other lures of any kind, are not as important to me as my family and my home."

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