Baek Song-hee

When the scholar Jeong Yak-jeon is exiled to Heuksando Island during the Catholic Persecution of 1801, he decides to write a fish-based encyclopaedia.

In a society where witches are hated, Yeongeun has been living in hiding from the outside world with her daughter Roo, who is actually a plant-like monster born from her mother’s creation. Sadly, she decides to undo her daughter’s curse, but Roo ultimately decides to fulfill her true destiny. They go on a personal and emotional journey in which they’ll find a new land, where Roo will take root as a tree.

A black comedy made up of six stories about the divergent but prevalent human responses to the pandemic.