Treeless Mountain
They say that when the pig is full, mom comes back...
A quietly devastating portrait of childhood abandonment and maternal absence, told through the intimate perspective of two young girls waiting for a mother who may never return.
A Korean woman leaves her two young daughters with her sister-in-law to search for their estranged father.
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