Fleeing from a group of drunken young men, Okyeon finds herself in the forbidden forest behind her village. She unexpectedly encounters Bangwool there — a former neighbor who had married into a nearby village years ago — still oddly wearing her wedding gown.
"I have nowhere to go. I’ll live like I’m dead."
The deep forest and the beach, with their captivating locations, imbue the film with a sense of multiple dimensions of time and space. Just as the characters alternate between straw shoes and silk shoes, the film portrays life and death as deeply intertwined. Its bold editing style vividly captures an underlying, raw yearning for life that resonates throughout the narrative. (KANG Byunghwa)