Based on Elisa Shua’s novel of the same name (awarded America’s 2021 National Book Award), the story unfolds in Sokcho, a small seaside town in South Korea, where 23-year-old Soo-Ha leads a humdrum life. The arrival of a French man called Kerrand in the boarding school where she works stirs up questions over her own identity. As winter envelops the town, they observe one anothe...