Hee-jung hopes to leave Daegu and transfer to a university in Seoul. She works at a ticket office for paddle boats to save up for her tuition. One day while she dozes off, someone attempts suicide.
Acting
Lee Se-young's dead-eyed exhaustion is devastatingly real.
Cinematography
Daegu's gray industrial sprawl becomes a character itself.
Director
Yoo Ji-young
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Daegu was South Korea's textile manufacturing heartland until globalization hollowed it out; the film captures a generation raised in boom times now adrift in bust.
Director Yoo Ji-young based Hee-jung's ticket booth on her own post-graduation job; the dozing-off was real, the suicide attempt was the fictional what-if that haunted her.
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