Séparées

Twenty five years after being adopted, Sophie goes back to South Korea for the first time. To places that echo separation… separation with a father, a sister, a country. Her personal history turns her thoughts to the collective history of a people that has been divided by a line of demarcation since 1953. In a country whose language is unknown to her, Sophie tries to understand the feelings of separation through her different encounters. She also asks herself about what abandon means, as the other side of separation, and also tries to grasp how broken relations affect those who have caused the separation. She becomes fully aware of a terrible social reality, and the cultural gap that separates her from the Koreans. This travelling through time, where present moments of her voyage mingle with childhood memories, means her departure is one full of new sensations.