One phone call. One brutal winter. One girl learning loneliness isn't a phase—it's a choice.
Ye-sun, a 16-year-old girl who lives in a little town in Jeju Island, recently lost her grandmother. After the death of her grandmother, Ye-sun closes herself from everyone so that she can get used to being alone. Over one lonely and severe winter night, Ye-sun finally picks up her phone to make a call.
Cinematography
Jeju winter as character: grey seas, frozen fields, empty roads.
Acting
Jang Hae-geum's stillness—every withheld tear hits harder.
Direction
Park Suk-young trusts you to sit in discomfort.
Director
Park Suk-young
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Jeju's haenyeo diving women culture looms in the background—absent grandmothers, absent traditions, absent sea.
Park Suk-young's 'mot' trilogy (Breathless, Steel Flower) similarly traps women in cycles of violence and escape; Ye-sun's violence is turned inward.
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