This film is about a disabled fisherman, Kang, who lost his legs in an accident but never stopped going out to sea and the precarious family relations that resulted from Kang’s decision. For 20 years since the accident, Kang’s family was his strength, the foundation of his survival, but Kang is also consumed with guilt over what the family had to sacrifice for him, above all the son who gave up a dream of becoming a baseball player to help his father. Using Chuang Tzu famous butterfly dream as a motif, the film mingles the images of unblinking reality with ideal dreamlike images. Like Chuang Tzu happily hovering around in his dreams, Kang?missing the old times before the accident?and his son?missing his childhood spent fantasizing of a career in baseball?both want to avoid waking up from their dreams. To them, reality is rather a nightmare best left unacknowledged. As such, the family portrait from the past shown at the end of the film is even more weighted down with heartbreak. (KIM Young-woo)