For more than 50 years, North and South Korea have gone their separate ways. A broad demilitarised zone cuts across the country and it is not easy to get out of North Korea. But some do manage. Jin-Wook is such a North Korean refugee who has passed the citizenship course at the refugee centre. He finds himself in a bare apartment in an outer suburb of Seoul with rows of apartment blocks all looking the same. On his first evening there, he goes to buy a blanket in the megastore. He is so stunned by what he sees that
he can't find his way back to his apartment. Jin-Wook ends up in the car of the female taxi-driver Hae-Jung, who had managed to flee the North 10 years before. Together they drive through the night in the hope that Jin-Wook will recognize his apartment block. He only finds it when it's light again. (GT, IFFR.NL)
