Synopsis

In a world where balloons grow with each use of language and take on distinct shapes depending on the language, an anxious novelist facing creative struggles and an uncertain future writes about a protagonist living in a foreign city, navigating linguistic barriers and a sense of alienation. The novelist’s halting writing process unfolds in quiet parallel with the protagonist’s difficult adaptation, mirroring one another.

Director's Comment

Staff

Producer/Scenario/Storyboard/BG Design/Lay Out/Voice JUNG Jihye

Character Design KIM Somin, JUNG Jihye

Effect LEE Jusuk

Sound KIM Hyunju

Program Note

A 2D animation blending pencil-drawn line textures, muted low-saturation tones, and generous negative space. The film's real strength lies in its visual imagination — its ability to translate the invisible, words and silence, anxiety and solitude, into shapes we can see before us. Images that rise, swell, and sink through the air let the audience physically sense the weight carried within the act of communication. The structure, too, is finely crafted, layering two separate timelines into a single emotional register, so that beneath the screen's quiet restraint, a deep resonance quietly gathers. 

SONG Sihyung