Dusang, who suffers from prosopagnosia, comes up to Seoul to look for his first love Saem. Three different women come across his path soon after he arrives. To him, they all appear to be Saem.
Acting
Choi Jun-young's fragile, searching performance as a man lost in his own mind
Direction
Hwang Kyu-il makes Seoul feel like a maze of interchangeable strangers
Director
Hwang Kyu-il
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Prosopagnosia (face blindness) affects roughly 2% of the population, but this film uses it as metaphor for how we all reconstruct people we love from fragments.
The title 'Saem' (샘) means both 'spring/well' and is a common Korean name — the film plays on this duality of person and source, something lost in translation.
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