EMBRACE

A year after her father’s funeral, a Korean American daughter returns home for the first time, only to find her immigrant mother has erased every trace of him and has chosen faith over memory.

After losing her father, Yeyoung holds on to memory. After losing her husband, Mikyung leans on faith and the church to get through each day. Both are ways of surviving, yet these choices become sources of misunderstanding and pain for one another. In immigrant families, the gaps created by language, culture, values, and religion often make it difficult to even speak about loss.

Rather than offering complete reconciliation, I wanted this film to leave room for a single possibility. Sitting together, eating together, and finally speaking. I believe that returning to the same table, even without full agreement or resolution, can be the first step toward continuing to live together.