One weekend. Two friends. The sea—and a factory that only lets one of them leave.
Lin, a migrant female worker from Cambodia, and Yeon-hee, a Korean, are friends who work together at a factory at night. One day, the two will go to the sea together for the weekend. However, the factory manager only forces Lin to work overtime on the weekend, while Lin finds out that Yeon-hee is leaving Korea for Australia soon.
Acting
Sreng Vuchny's silence speaks entire migrations.
Direction
Kim Jung-eun turns factory fluorescent into poetry.
Director
Kim Jung-eun
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
South Korea hosts over 500,000 migrant workers under the EPS program; many face 'voluntary' overtime that's anything but. The film was made with actual factory workers as consultants.
The sea functions as Chekhov's gun that never fires—promised escape that capitalism keeps reloading. Director Kim called it 'the country you can almost touch but never reach.'
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