Your dad's a criminal, your heart's broken, so you road-trip into forgiveness.
Kang-bi, a freshman in college, always respects his father. However, she finds that one day her father is accused of violating the Food Sanitation Act, and she gradually becomes skeptical of her father. Kang-bi, who is hurt by her, goes on a trip alone. On her journey, Kang-bi meets her friend Dai. Through their journey of ups and downs, they open their eyes to a new experience and realization that they cannot live without forgiving and loving everything in this world
Acting
Cho Yong-won's brittle silence speaks volumes.
Cinematography
Autumn Korea as a character in itself.
Writing
Turns a road movie into spiritual reckoning.
Director
Kim Eung-chun
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released during Chun Doo-hwan's authoritarian rule, the father's prosecution mirrors state corruption narratives that filmmakers snuck past censors through family drama.
Kim Eung-chun largely abandoned cinema after this film flopped commercially; it was rediscovered by Korean feminist scholars in the 2010s who read Kang-bi's journey as proto-female autonomy cinema.
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