Jo, whose previous works include “The Continuing Land” (2022) and “Merely Known as Something Else,” both screened at Busan, said the idea for her new film began with her grandmother’s stroke-induced speech impairment. “The only person who could truly understand her fragmented words was my grandfather. After he passed away, I thought deeply about the isolation she was left with,” she explains. Her own experience living abroad and confronting “spaces between languages” further shaped the film’s direction. In her vision, water symbolizes “a gesture of connection in the face of loss” and the “possibilities that lie between two languages.”
The director frames the narrative within Korea and Japan…
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