65 years of silence, one broken woman's impossible return home.
From the Japanese Occupation a 'comfort woman' returns from China an old woman. At the end of the war she can't return home and spends the next 65 years living as an alien in a foreign country. Even to her own granddaughter she seems to be losing her mind. She only wants to go back to Korea.
Acting
Jo An's decades-spanning performance of unprocessed grief.
Direction
Choo Sang-Rok refuses easy catharsis—pain lingers, unresolved.
Director
Choo Sang-Rok
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released as Japan-Korea diplomatic tensions over 'comfort women' recognition peaked; the film's very existence was political act.
The title refers to Korean traditional instrument—Hyang-ok's fractured identity as something that can 'tune' to no key, belonging nowhere.
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