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It's winter in Sokcho, a tourist town on the border between South Korea and North Korea, and a young French-Korean girl works at the front desk of a shabby guesthouse. One night, a rare guest arrives: a French cartoonist determined to find inspiration in this desolate landscape. As the girl continues to defy society's expectations, break up with her long-distance boyfriend, and resist her mother's urging for plastic surgery, she develops a subtle and fluid relationship with the cartoonist. She agrees to accompany him on his search for the "real" Sokcho, and the two travel to snowy mountains and spectacular waterfalls, even to the border. But he had no interest in the Sokcho she was familiar with-the fancy neon lights, the scars of war, the fish market where her mother worked. She had a secret wish to be like the person in his painting.