In this powerful exploration of family secrets, a South Korean filmmaker uncovers the hidden story of her aunt, who died by suicide before graduating from college—a relative whose existence was systematically erased from the family memory. Through delicate animation and determined investigation, including conversations with her aunt’s former classmates, director Juyeon Yang discovers the tragedy may have been linked to dating violence, unrecorded and unacknowledged simply because the victim was female. As she reconstructs her aunt’s truncated life through literary remnants and faded photographs, the filmmaker confronts the broader pattern of patriarchal erasure that demands women exist only as obedient daughters, sisters, wives and daughters-in-law. By challenging her family’s uncomfortable silence, Yang constructs both a memorial and an indictment of societal structures that continue to perpetuate and minimize women’s suffering. This courageous documentary transforms personal archeology into political resistance, asking vital questions about whose stories deserve remembrance and why familial peace often comes at the cost of suppressing historical truth. Gugi Gumilang.
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