North Korean defector Jeon Seung-Chul distributes fliers for a living. He likes Sookyoung, who goes to same church with him, but he cannot think of getting close to her because of his present circumstances. Kyungchul, who lives with Seung-Chul, is a broker who collects other North Korean defectors’ money to send it to their family in North Korea but gets conned by his uncle. And Kyungchul asks Seung-Chul to bring him the money he has hidden.

Every Korean citizen has a resident registration number. There are, however, people who get discriminated by this number. It is North Korean defectors who are not welcomed in Korea though they are the same people with South Koreans. They crossed the border or the ocean with desperate will to survive instead of ideology or the national system. What do they face in reality of South Korea? They should trample on or be trampled by each other so as to survive in the middle of another survival competition. They must think that winter of South Korea is cold and achromatic. They also should get on with the actual surroundings in South Korea. A North Korean defector, Jeon Seung-cheol works at a karaoke with showy posters right in the middle of desolate city of Seoul without a hint of heat. As he feels awfully lonely and stuffy, his dreams go against his expectation too simply. In order to recover his dreams, he has to use a crisis of his friend, which I wanted to show you the meaning of survival in this society. They should become thoroughly alone so as to get rid of the title of ‘North Korean defector.’ It is not merely those who are solitary in the society. In this film, I wanted to project a number of people who crouch on the floor, as there are more and more skyscrapers.

2010 제15회 부산국제영화제/ 뉴커런츠상, 국제영화평론가협회상