Yeong-gyeong first meets Su-hwan at a wedding party. She is an alcoholic and he suffers from chronic arthritis. He carries her home after she passes out drunk, in an act of lissom grace.

His health complications, her illness and debt, both of their failed marriages and ritualised self-destruction bind them, and the slim promise of rescue rears its head. Adapted from Kwon Yeo-sun’s novel of the same name, Kang Mi-ja’s second feature depicts the unexpected romance of a doomed kinship with a spare and sublime digital image.