Two Danish-Korean adoptees return for the first time to the country they of their birth. Confronted with the spirit of their Motherland and the personal stories of the fellow adoptees they meet in the city of Seoul, Karoline and Thomas are hurled into an emotionally disorienting journey that forces both of them to question and face their own destiny and identity.
Direction
Choi Jensen blurs documentary and fiction until neither feels real.
Acting
Lee and Hwan playing themselves—raw, unscripted, brave.
Cinematography
Seoul as alien landscape: familiar yet unreachable.
Director
Malene Choi Jensen
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Choi Jensen, herself a Korean-Danish adoptee, cast non-actors and built the narrative around their real uncertainties—no script, just emotional scaffolding.
The film sparked debate in Denmark about closed adoptions and the 'happy immigrant' myth—adoptees called it the first time their grief was seen, not sanitized.
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