Young Jin-hee is taken by her father to an orphanage near Seoul. He leaves her there never to return, and she struggles to come to grips with her fate. Jin-hee desperately believes her father will come back for her and take her on a trip.
Acting
Kim Sae-ron's devastating performance at age nine
Direction
Lecomte's autobiographical restraint—no melodrama, just truth
Cinematography
Bleak institutional beauty that mirrors Jin-hee's numbness
Director
Ounie Lecomte
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Ounie Lecomte based this on her own 1975 adoption from a Korean orphanage by a French family.
The film's Korean title '여행자' (Traveller) refers to both Jin-hee's promised trip and her status as someone passed between worlds.
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