Kim Ryun-hee is trapped between the South and the North. Following her struggle to go back to her family in the North, I realised that our understanding of the defectors was too simplistic. The journey of NK defectors cannot be a happy ending even though they arrive in the South. They are still drifting on the still-cold river of division, disconnected both from the North and the South. So I wanted to raise awareness about this absurdity that hinders a humanitarian desire to be together with her loved ones. Kim often thinks how wonderful it would be if all these things were available in the North. But a tearful Kim says, “Freedom and material and other lures of any kind, they are not as important to me as my family and my home.”​