The film traces the tragic sinking of Sewol Ferry in 2014 as “some anonymous and generalized death.” In Jindo, an island where spirits dwell, part of life is a singing and dancing community culture that embraces death and cleanses the spirit of the dead. In this spiritual world of Jindo, the film rediscovers the Sewol Incident that we have never approached before.

In those dark years when even the nation fell away, where would those souls have lingered if it weren't for Jindo?
From this single sentence the project begins. In the coastal waters of Jindo Island, a home to remarkable and unusually many rituals dealing particularly with death, such as Jindossitgimgut, Jindomanga, and Jindodasiraegi, there lingered for five years the spirits of Sewol Ferry. The Jindo Sea, the Dangols (shamans) of that sea, and the Jindossitgimgut they perform through which hundreds of spirits are embraced and saved from that sea, all these the documentary seeks to reveal and record. The audience will realize it's a story about the Sewol Ferry only after the film ends. This is intended because the film's principal subject is not the sunken ship but Jindo's attitude toward death, that dignity of the Jindo Sea.

2020 제21회 전주국제영화제