Cho You-hyun

Despite the close bonds among fellow defectors, Cheol-jun—a young North Korean defector—felt isolated while hiding his gay identity. Finally, he takes his first step into South Korea's vibrant gay community and forms close ties after meeting Yeong-jun at a casual gathering. Yet, a trivial misunderstanding shatters these fragile bonds.

After setting fire to his own house, Ju-young’s father vanished without a trace. When she receives news that fragments of his bones have been discovered, Ju-young returns to her hometown village — and to see her Deaf younger brother, Se-hyung. The village and the mountains are unnaturally quiet. So quiet, it feels as though something beneath them is beginning to boil. Drawn deeper into that silence, Ju-young must slowly dig up what has long been buried there. Within that unknowable silence, something is seething.

A story about a middle-aged man finding his first love from high school.