Wretches

Fifteen-year-old Myung-hee and her nine-year-old brother Myung-ho are of Korean-Chinese descent. Their mother left for Yeonbyeon three months ago, promising to return with their father, and they have heard no news from her since. Every day, Myung-hee and Myung-ho go to the shipping port or airport hoping for their parents' return. Tired from waiting one day, Myung-hee meets Yong-kyu, a young man high from sniffing glue. Beyond a tough and violent exterior, Myung-hee finds a young man's heartwarming inner-self, and she expects Yong-kyu to take the place of her parents. But even Yong-kyu leaves her and life steadily deteriorates. Hoping for help, Myung-hee goes to a familiar Korean-Chinese woman, arriving in time to find immigration officials taking the woman away. They are now truly alone.

Jung-in is unable to see off her boyfriend who is leaving for France because she gets food poisoning the day before the departure date. Jung-in is left alone in the emergency room with a letter from her boyfriend telling her not to trust him. The film deals with the growing pains of young people who spend their boring late twenties with expectations for a new love and passion for unchanging ideals. This film captures the beautiful places of Busan as it is all shot there.

Escaping the extreme heat, K takes a vacation to a highland retreat, only to be disappointed by a landscape far from what he saw online. To kill time, he takes photos with his smartphone and unexpectedly encounters a mysterious woman in his hotel room. He begins photographing her in earnest, and what began casually turns into deep immersion. Through the lens, the scenery transforms into unfamiliar yet beautiful images, and K becomes captivated by a world he had never truly seen. In a place detached from his expectations, his quiet journey unfolds—gently questioning the boundary between imagination and perception.