• Director(s):

    Minju Song

  • Producer(s):

    ARTE GEIE

  • Territories:

    Worldwide.

  • Production year:

    2018

  • Language(s):

    German, English, French

  • Rights:

    TV, DVD, NON-THEATRICAL, INTERNET, VOD

Lee Geumsum is an old lady who has not lost any bit of her nerve. At 91, she will finally be reunited with her son – whom she has not seen in 67 years. An intimate portrait that perfectly encapsulates the great rift in the Korean peninsula.

Lee Geumsum was a young mother in her twenties when she had to flee the Korean war in 1951. Her journey took her through a few hundred kilometers of exile in the peninsula – amid the fights, famine and disease. One morning – as she had to stop to breastfeed her newborn daughter – she lost sight of her 4 year old son, who wandered away in the refugee column. She never saw him again.
 
She had started a new life in Seoul; yet in 2018 Mrs Lee receives a letter from the Red Cross. Her son is still alive in North Korea and wishes to be reunited with her as a part of the family reunions organized between the two Koreas. Even thought the South Korean president Moon Jae and his North Korean counterpart Kim Jong Un started meeting more frequently, the last Cold War demarcation still divides the two nations’ people.