Your best friend dies, your job wants your soul—time to buy a convertible and ghost everyone.
Always wearing a smiley face, Oh Ji-ah exerts herself no matter what, dreaming of a bright and shining future. But then, she is diagnosed with thymus cancer out of the blue. In spite of that, the company and her family force her hand as usual… While she is living her usual life, her friend Anna comes to see her. Anna, Jia’s role-model as the CEO of a company, suggests going on a tour around the country in a convertible the very next day but Jia refuses to go due to the pile of work she has to do and her upcoming surgery. And the day after, Jia faces the mourning portrait of Anna. Suffering from burn-out, Jia buys a ‘Cabriolet’ convertible with the money she saved up for surgery and takes off on a tour around the country.
Acting
Keum Sae-rok's smile that slowly cracks open
Direction
Cho Kwang-jin balances cringe comedy with genuine despair
Production
The convertible as character—freedom and absurdity on four wheels
Director
Cho Kwang-jin
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
South Korea's 'death from overwork' (gwarosa) epidemic makes Ji-ah's ignored diagnosis a national critique, not just personal tragedy.
The title's irony: convertibles promise freedom but Ji-ah's is purchased with surgery money—health exchanged for the illusion of control.
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