Every day a man sets out to kill himself, but every afternoon he forgets what he is about to do because he suffers from alcoholic dementia. One day, he meets a severely alcoholic woman who leads an equally mundane life with no purpose. They start to hang out but once she discovers his condition, she takes advantage of it by installing a false memory of herself as his previous lover. Oddly enough he believes this and they soon embark on a road trip to the Taebaek Mountains to end their lives together.
This is a debut feature for writer and director Kim Ji-seok. The main leads are Kang Gil-woo (A Distant Place) and Park Ga-young (Suspicion). And There Was Light premiered at the 25th Busan International Film Festival in October 2020. It is scheduled for a theatrical release on February 10, 2022.
