Film | 00:20:52 | 2026

After giving up on the bar exam, Jiyoung returns home to find traces of her father, Woochul, who has taken over her old room. Years ago, Woochul also spent years preparing for the bar exam but never passed and has since drifted from job to job. Having recently left his latest job, he now spends his spare time painting. Through the paintings, belongings, and traces of the life he has lived, Jiyoung gradually discovers that her father’s failures and struggles are not so different from her own. In the process, the familiar figure she has always known simply as her “father” begins to emerge as a person she never truly knew.

Minhee Lee is pursuing an MFA in Film Directing at the Graduate School of Advanced Imaging Science, Multimedia & Film at Chung-Ang University. Her work focuses on fleeting moments when different individuals unexpectedly connect, or come to see one another from a slightly different perspective. Rather than seeking clear answers or reconciliation, she explores the possibility of coexistence while allowing differences and uncertainties to remain. In other words, she makes films in an attempt to understand an incomprehensible world—and you. She has directed short films including Castella and A Different Summer.