I Can Speak

I Can Speak

Want to hear my story?

2017119 min7.9 / 10

A tender intergenerational friendship story that gradually reveals a woman's harrowing past as a comfort woman, balancing warmth and humor with historical trauma and the weight of testimony.

A grumpy old woman befriends a young civil servant and learns English from him. She then reveals to him her shocking past.

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