The Silk Thread · Volume 2 of 4
Under the Pomegranate Tree
석류나무 아래서
Dawit Jin Shallo
In a gentrifying Seoul neighborhood, three generations of women gather in their grandmother's crumbling hanok as she enters her final days. Mi-sun sacrificed her art for family duty. She discovers her mother's hidden manuscripts: a secret life as a dissident poet during the military dictatorship.
Hae-won, the corporate lawyer, unearths letters questioning her parentage. College student Ji-young documents everything through her camera, preserving what her elders want to forget. Photographs, recipes, protest pamphlets, love letters. The stories they were told and the truths that emerge do not match. Outside, the grandmother's pomegranate tree bears fruit despite the construction. Stubborn. Enduring."