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Is this your daughter's backpack?
Kim Hye Na, first grade, homeroom number 3, is that correct?
Cafe Latte
One month before Hye Na's disappearance
- Episode 1-
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Migratory Bird Flyway Tracking System
How can you be looking at this?
This is the jackpot moment when the whole year's worth of data showers down.
Other people are packing up.
How long do we have?
The longest would be the end of the month. I am going to wrap up before the vacation starts
and move onto the Pacific climate change project.
Ah...
Did you see this?
- A GPS tracker? - It sends the location data every 4 hours and you can check it all with an app.
The margin of error is only 40 meters.
That is crazy.
But what are you going to do?
Among the 120 bird rings, I retrieved 9. I'm going to pack up when I get 20.
How are you going to live when the research stipend stops?
I'll have to do whatever, making use of my specialty.
How do birds fly?
I'll draw the shape of a bird's wing.
If you cut a bird's wing, you can see that the cross section looks like this.
Teacher! What is a cross section?
- What is a cross section? - Do you know "cross section"?
What is a cross section?
A cross section is...
I thought you were hiring a teacher only to teach science?
That was our intention. But the homeroom teacher in charge of Homeroom #3
says she has to take a leave of absence now.
She is pregnant with twins and expecting them any moment now.
Since the vacation is just around the corner, it is hard to find a new teacher.
Our Teacher Kang Soo Jin, please take charge of Homeroom #3 just for three weeks.
Our Teacher Song, please help her out a little bit.
Don't worry about the lesson plans.
I've already made them all, so you can just take them and apply them in the classroom.
Oh Cheol died yesterday morning.
Who died?
A duck named Oh Cheol that Homeroom #3 students collectively raised.
The kids must be very traumatized.
During the fifth period, please make them write letters to Oh Cheol.
Lesson Plan
Write a letter to a dead duck?
As you know, Teacher, children keenly suffer losses too.
We have to give them a chance to express that grief and to mourn.
To Oh Cheol, who is in heaven
Hye Na, aren't you going to write one?
Teacher, you cannot read a letter when dead.
The truth is, heaven doesn't exist, either.
I feel so sorry for Oh Cheol.
Teacher, a duck cannot read letters anyway.
- That is true. - That is true.
Hello, Duck! Now you're dead, so you cannot poop, right?
Kids, be quiet!
It's true that the dead don't breathe nor eat.
They also don't poop.
Of course, they can't read letters, either.
But you raised Oh Cheol since he was a duckling.
If such a duck dies suddenly, your hearts must feel sad.
You must also miss him.
Write those words in your letters.
After you write such a letter,
your sad and grieving hearts feel a bit better.
It's okay not to write if you don't want to
because Oh Cheol cannot read letters anyway.
Fun! Fun! ENGLISH ZONE Good-bye!
Goodbye.
Teacher, you're very pretty.
I love you.
Good bye!
What is it?
The secret behind Oh Cheol's death
Hearing that ducks die if they eat chocolate and glass powder,
Joo Hyeok Han and Jeong Min Sung fed him chocolate and glass powder every day.
It's only for 3 weeks. Do your best. You will learn a lot about young individuals of a primate species.
I applied for programs in China, Canada and Iceland.
The common murre research at Iceland's Skomer Center seems fascinating.
- How many rings have you collected? - Twelve.
Eight remaining before you leave.
You take off easily and return easily. You're the ultimate migratory bird.
Maybe this time, I won't return.
Aren't you interested in social behaviors that all other people engage in?
Like settling down in one place and meeting your mate and having children.
In any group, 5-10% of the population are lone wolves.
- What did they say? - Look for Soo Jin.
- Did they say it spread? - Find Soo Jin.
It's been more than 10 years since she cut all ties. Where would I suddenly go to find her?
First, what did they say...
I want to break the news to my daughter, Soo Jin, before anyone else.
"The elephant and alligator tried to stop them but they didn't listen."
"And the lion said, 'why don't you each give a little?'"
"The giraffe did that because he was hungry and the monkey got angry because he couldn't sleep."
"After seeing the giraffe and monkey making up, the elephant said
'Wow, wonderful, lion, you're indeed something.'
The Same as Trash
Who was it?
Teacher, I don't want to eat next to Hye Na.
- Why? - Her fingernails are very dirty.
Do you know what I do?
A bird... doctor?
I know very well about birds.
But Oh Cheol's death seems very strange because ducks don't die that easily.
When I read his observation logs, he seemed to have lost appetite suddenly and started to throw up weird things.
Perhaps, someone fed him something that shouldn't have been given to him?
For example, something like chocolate or glass powder?
It wasn't glass powder. It was hard candy powder.
There is a way to find out.
Dig out Oh Cheol's dead body, cut open his belly with a knife,
and confirm what's in it.
We can also look at the CCTV tapes to see who gave what to Oh Cheol.
- Shall we do it or not? - Don't! Don't do it, Teacher.
Can you promise me one thing?
Don't ever harass girls, animals or people weaker than you.
Okay.
"Neapolitan pizza..."
"Italian pizza..."
"The taste of a master cook..."
"Match-less..."
This syllable has two final consonants. Hard, isn't it?
There are few kids in my class who know all the syllables with two final consonants.
Did I startle you, Teacher?
Why are you walking around alone this late?
I'm usually alone. Ever since I was five.
- Your mom? - Not home yet.
Do you want a bite?
I don't eat red bean filled buns.
It's tasty though.
Do you want a bite?
This is the taste of an Italian pizza master! You know, right? Neapolitan pizza?
You laughed! It's the first time I've seen you laugh.
- What is that? - Favorite things notebook.
If I write down my favorite things here like this, I can get them out and look at them without forgetting them when I need them.
- Like from a fridge. - What is written there?
"A curving, sloping road."
"A big bag with wheels."
"When a balloon grows bigger... A lock and key."
Cafe latte.
- What? - Cafe latte. I like it a lot.
- Young children shouldn't drink coffee. - It's okay.
If young children drink coffee they won't be able to sleep,
their heads will hurt and they won't grow tall.
Really?
What are your favorite things, Teacher?
Having a quiet meal by myself.
Kim Hye Na, listen to me well.
Clip your fingernails once a week.
Wash your hair at least once in three days. Always brush your teeth after eating.
Change your undies and socks every day.
If you don't have many clothes, rotate them frequently. A messy child will be targeted.
Because it means there is no one to look after her, it is as good as wearing an "easy target" sign.
What should you do if there is no one looking after you?
You have to look after yourself. Many children do so and you can do it, too.
Teacher, did you know how to clip your nails when you were eight years old?
You rotten bi*ch! How dare you finish off your mother in one bite and eye another's child?
Don't ever have a child. Live alone!
Grandma, it's my teacher. She is so nice to me.
- Where is Hye Na? - She's sleeping in the restroom.
In the restroom?
The school nurse says it looks like malnutrition.
And she has bruises all over her body.
Children from single parent families demand much attention to begin with.
But she is a strange child. She never cries no matter what she undergoes.
Didn't you feel anything was strange?
Hye Na.
Did Teacher Ye Eun leave?
Yeah.
- That teacher is strange. - Why?
When I told her I fell from a stairway, she took pictures.
Where? Where did you get hurt?
Do you also like to see where other people hurt, Teacher?
I've also fallen from the stairs.
Did it hurt?
- Did it hurt? - Did you cry?
A little bit.
I didn't cry.
Teacher, at times like that, think about your favorite things. Then even while crying, you might stop.
That could be true.
But Teacher Ye Eun is really strange.
She keeps asking me whether I like my mom.
So what did you say?
I said I liked her very, very much, of course.
- I see. - Was that good?
What did I tell you, last time, about what I did to that noisy kid?
But, Uncle, our house is on the first floor.
Is anyone there?
Hye Na, are you there?
Oh, Hey Na!
How do you do? I am Teacher Song Ye Eun from Hye Na's school.
Hye Na didn't come to school today.
I called in that she has a cold.
I see... Hye Na, what's the matter with your ear?
I'm sorry. Does it hurt? Let me see it.
Show them how you got hurt, Hye Na.
I got hit by a baseball.
In the street over there.
- Oh, poor baby! - Her eardrum almost ruptured.
I wonder why they play the baseball in the street when there are playgrounds.
Hye Na has a wound on another place, too.
I know.
Are you perhaps asking if I did it?
I often fall, Teacher.
The doctor said there are children who have bad ears and fall often.
Right, Mom?
- I heard that you live with a man... - Teacher,
I earn money and raise my kid all by myself.
I go to work at 10 a.m. and come home at 8 p.m. So what do you want me to do with the kid?
Should I keep her locked up?
And also, just because I'm a mother, must I tell my kid's school teacher whether I have a man or not?
Hye Na, are you okay?
What should we do. You're bleeding. What should we do?
Are you okay?
Did you see that? She was acting.
Abused children tend to cover for their parents no matter what.
- What did the kid say? - She said she fell down the stairs.
It doesn't make sense. Would she get such bruises from falling?
It's a lie for sure.
The child's mother is testifying to the same effect.
They must have agreed to stick to the same story.
I think we'll first have to visit her home together with the police.
- After figuring out the situation... - What next?
The fact is, even if a child has a few bruises,
if the child or her parents explain them away by saying she fell or ran into something, we have no way to counter.
So we, social workers, visit the home and see if the child is safe.
When necessary, we are accompanied by the police and give them a stern warning.
Afterwards, for a period of 3 to 6 months, we pay monthly visits to manage the cases.
Shouldn't the child be removed from her home right this moment?
Besides the mother, there is a man the mother lives with.
Do you think the mother is capable of striking the child strongly enough to almost rupture her eardrum?
In the Republic of Korea, parental rights
are rather strong.
Under the current law, we cannot ignore the parental rights and forcibly investigate the home,
let alone forcibly remove the child from the home.
Excuse me.
Are you home?
It's the police.
Are you not at home?
- What's the matter? - Is this the house of student Kim Hye Na?
- That's right. - A report has been filed and we need to check whether your child is safe.
- May we enter? - Wait here.
Kim Hye Na.
Are you Hye Na?
How did you hurt your ear?
I was hit by a ball, a baseball.
How? Were you playing a baseball game?
I got hit in the street, passing by.
You're a good kid, right? You shouldn't lie to a policeman.
I'll confirm it all through CCTV.
What are you doing now? Are you threatening the child?
Since we got a report, shouldn't we investigate thoroughly?
Jjing! Our Jjing should eat.
You're hungry, right, Jjing? Unnie will feed you, so eat.
Oppa, I'm so sorry.
I'm sorry that I'm a single mother and I'm grateful that you are so understanding.
I'll really ask for a favor just this once.
Don't touch my child.
If people keep barging in here, that's really hard on me.
If you cannot like the child at all, should I just send her off to an orphanage?
- I can give you your own child. - No way!
Don't go, Oppa.
If you leave like this, what should I do?
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Mom, I'm sorry.
Go away. I said go.
Go somewhere I can't see you.
Co-... ca ... Co-... la ... is ... yum - ... my.
If... it's... yum -... my, drink... it... a-... gain.
I heard that the child is very attached to her mother.
Because her mother is all she has, the child has no choice but to cling to her.
The police sent an official letter and the child protection agency also asked for our cooperation.
But this kind of matter has to be handled very carefully,
because a child, her home and our school's honor are on the line.
Outsiders cannot know all that is going on in a home.
First, let me see the principal.
I don't like both the school and the police.
If we do nothing like this, aren't we, after all, onlookers to domestic violence?
Isn't that so?
I'm thinking...
What about we listen to what Hye Na has to say again?
Hye Na is being manipulated by her mom right now.
"I fell from the stairs," "I got hit by a baseball." Are you saying we should continue listening to the nonsense?
That she is afraid to betray her mom, who's her only flesh and blood in the world,
that she is embarrassed to tell
people about getting hit and abused,
that she is scared to be separated from her mom and sent to an institution where she knows nobody,
I think Hye Na is saying these things.
Then, how much longer are you suggesting that we just stand by and watch her getting beaten?
Rather than standing by...
You are talking as if you're discussing other people's affairs.
You don't want to be a teacher, right?
Becoming a teacher
means you have to take responsibility for even bothersome and difficult things.
Do you really think I like to do this myself?
My wedding is next week.
I don't have time to be running around like this.
I'm leaving first.
She keeps asking me whether I like my mom.
So what did you say?
I said I liked her very, very much, of course.
Was it good?
Skomer Center Iceland Ornithology Center "We are pleased to offer you admission to...."
A masters from the University of Wisconsin in 2008,
and while doing her PhD at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand,
she moved to another place 3 years ago.
A new person is in charge at the university in New Zealand,
so they are not sure exactly where she moved to.
- They said they would look into it for us, but... - Jae Beom,
Yes, Noo-nim (respectful way of saying Noona).
You go.
- Go where? - How would they know about the pressing situation we are in
and look into the matter as if it's their own concern?
So, go to New Zealand personally.
What, Noo-nim? I have appointments here and
you are not feeling well. So how can I...
I can't speak English either.
Give us a moment.
Jae Beom.
Yes, Noo-nim.
I am not trying to find Soo Jin on a whim.
For the last ten years, it was so hard for me
to let her do whatever she wanted and go wherever she wanted.
But now, my circumstances can't allow that any more.
Find her for me. I beg you.
- Mom! - Oh, you're here, Yi Jin.
What circumstances are forcing you to look for Unnie?
We'll talk about it later.
She's the sister who didn't even contact us once for ten years.
Is there something you want to tell her but can't tell me?
Whether she called or not, she's still your sister.
Wait until I find her.
Eat.
Eat fast.
Ah, you're dirty.
So when do they need you by?
As soon as possible.
Congratulations.
Thank you.
At the beginning, I thought you were from a poor family and bought you so many meals.
I am from a poor family.
But your mom came looking for you when you were a freshman.
There are many instances of rich mothers and poor daughters.
Eat well over there, so you won't get lonely.
Okay, even though I don't get lonely.
Are you really not lonely at all?
Either you want to be with someone you like or you get angry because you keep thinking about that person.
Hasn't this happened to you?
I'm home.
What's this?
We were playing hide-and-seek
and I couldn't get out.
Oppa, I'm scared of such jokes.
What are we going to do if someone comes and sees this?
Go play outside.
"Specializing in delivery..."
"Yoon Bok's Restaurant."
"Curried rice,"
"omurice, donkatsu..." (omelette rice and fried pork cutlet)
I love donkatsu the most in the world.
"tteokbokki, rabokki..." (spicy stir-fried rice cake, spicy stir-fried rice cake and ramen)
Anything stir-fried has two giyeok's (ㄲ) as the final consonants.
Kim Hye Na!
Teacher!
It's not a time when little children should be outside!
Your call is not answered and will be sent to a voice mail box...
Your mom keeps not answering the phone.
Teacher, can I give that to Jjing?
Jjing is hungry.
Oh, okay.
Since this is left over,
should I eat it?
Do, re, mi, fa, so, la, ti, do.
I cannot read books well.
Why?
Because I cannot read letters quickly.
Is that so? I didn't know.
So I practice every day.
My mom can also cook very well.
Is that so?
What is she good at making?
Curry rice.
Omurice and donkatsu.
They're tasty.
And tteokbokki and rabokki.
You must like it.
That your mom cooks well.
- Yes, and my mom is also really pretty. - Is that so?
She is also very good at putting on pretty makeup. She works at a cosmetics store.
She also smells nice.
But why don't you wear makeup, Teacher?
My mom was also very pretty.
She also did her makeup very well.
When I was little, watching my mom putting on her makeup, I thought,
"I can't do it like that. Let's give it up neatly."
Didn't you want to become like your mother, Teacher?
No.
Teacher, did you not like
your mother?
Then who do you like?
Birds.
"When birds start to
fly
toward Egypt,
they are already in Egypt."
Traveling thousands of kilometers,
sometimes even tens of thousands of kilometers,
migratory birds never get lost.
Whether it's raining or snowing, whether it's day or night,
they fly over cold oceans.
They don't have maps or landmarks, but they surely arrive at their destination.
Because in here, they have maps and GPS.
To be able to fly away that far,
what could it feel like?
Should we go to see
where the migratory birds are?
When?
It's too cold now, so after we sleep.
If we take a blanket and something warm to drink...
But Mom...
Won't my mom be worried?
Yes.
Yes. Yes.
Your mom is at home. Get dressed.
Okay.
- Thank you. - Go home safely.
Teacher, I really want to go soon
to see the birds.
Let's go.
Did it hurt?
Did you cry?
Sunbae, I have a favor to ask.
Did something happen?
I will call you later so can you check if she is safe and tell me?
What do I need to check?
If she's going to school, if she went home safely...
I don't know. It feels like something is going to happen.
- Is she a student in your class? - Yes.
But why?
I'm concerned. I'm so concerned that I feel like I will go mad.
I saw the man she lives with.
Although I saw him for the first time,
his gaze was familiar.
The gaze of a beast that bites women and children.
Anyway, congratulations. A person should live doing what they love.
I should be able to get a teacher. Don't worry.
Thank you for all this time.
Okay.
I knew it.
You get to do the work that you like, right?
You had a hard time because of me.
You are going to study birds?
Yes.
It suits you
along with your cold image.
Hye Na! Hye Na!
Kim Hye Na!
With you...
I thought we were going to see the migratory birds.
Jjing.
Jjing!
Mom... What about Jjing?
He went to heaven.
It's better than living being locked up, right?
But Mom,
heaven... it doesn't exist.
I wasn't the one who did it!
A curving, sloping road.
A big bag with wheels.
Did you cry?
You didn't cry, right?
If you cry then you will die.
The sound of Jjing eating sunflower seeds.
You will die when that tear falls.
If you make the slightest noise,
you will die.
The sound of waves.
The smell of wind before it rains.
What did I tell you about what I did to that noisy kid?
When I meet eyes with a cat.
But then, Uncle,
our house is on the first floor.
If I fall from the first floor,
I won't die.
When a balloon slowly gets bigger.
Should I tell you what I did to Jjing?
I pressed like this.
The downhill to the sea.
Do you know what happened next?
His eyes bugged out like those of a shrimp's.
And something popped out from inside, with the color of blood.
Mixed with something slimy like spittle.
Alright?
The sun on the sea.
So dirty.
You're dirty.
Mom!
Mom... when she hugs me tight.
You're dirty.
Cafe latte.
What time is the movie?
Let's go and get some coffee. Something sweet.
I need to get to my senses.
Cafe latte.
The day I first saw Teacher Soo Jin smile.
I'm sorry.
Hye Na, do you want water?
Is there anything you want to eat?
Do you want to drink cafe latte?
Migratory birds,
I want to go and see them, Teacher.
I'll tell you a secret.
That child's name was Lee Won Hee.
When Uncle slept with his mom,
he was too noisy.
He threw him off of the veranda.
Because that house was on the fourth floor...
You don't need to tell me. If you're scared you don't have to.
He was five years old then.
He died and now he can't become a grade schooler.
Lee Won Hee of Small Spring Class, Daddy-long-legs Kindergarten.
I wrote it down in my notebook.
Even if his friends and teacher from Small Spring Class forget his name,
I won't forget.
The person who knows how he died
is only me.
If I tell others,
Uncle said he will kill me.
Guys, where are you going?
Will you take me, too?
Take me, too.
Far away, far away...
to Heaven.
Hye Na. Listen to me well.
I will take you with me.
To a place where no one knows, thousands of kilometers away.
Then Teacher, won't you go to jail?
- That could happen. - No, Teacher!
If you don't want to, you don't have to come. Once you come, you won't be able to return ever.
And you won't be able to see your mom.
If you go back home,
you might become like Lee Won Hee of Small Spring Class, Daddy-long-legs Kindergarten someday.
Why can't kids live without their moms?
You can.
I will help you so that you can.
My mom threw me in the trash!
Now,
you are the one throwing your mom away.
Can you do it?
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Let's go bravely, as if nothing happened.
I'm not scared, Mom.
My head feels like it's going to explode. It's as if she died because of me.
This wasn't an accidental death but a murder!
If it wasn't for me, you'd already have gone.
Hye Na!
Hye Na's face gets shown on television?
You need to give permission...
I don't want to. I can't live like that.
It's a situation where the child could be dead.
What if she hasn't died?
It's going to be bothersome, very bothersome.
We are going slowly. I will find a way no matter what.