The five years time since the Sewol Ferry disaster, what did it mean to us? The time is documented in the film and described with the notion of trauma. After people face their trauma, they start to speak of responsibility rather than sorrow or anger. With such courage to face the trauma, maybe we will be able to write new stories, post-trauma of Sewol Ferry.

There were moments when sorrow seemed weightless. People often shed unexpected tears when talking about Sewol Ferry disaster. This film began with the question of whether witnesses of a disaster could also be traumatized.
The people, who had witnessed the incident and not been able to speak out their sorrow properly for the past five years, had an unidentifiable mass of grief. The mass is divided by a time scale and reorganized into certain memories for us to look into the past five years. While speaking of confusion, guilt, anger, helplessness, and unexplicable times, the witnesses become those who were involved and had survived from the incident. Hopefully people who have endured alone the past five years, will be able to sense a certain consolation that comes from empathy.

2019 제24회 부산국제영화제