Frédérique "Freddie" Benoît (Ji-Min Park) is a young French woman, adopted from a Korean orphanage.
She travels to Korea "by accident" and immediately cultivates the receptionist Tena (Guka Han) at the hostel she is staying in to be her new best friend and local guide.
Freddie has no Korean and no knowledge of Korean culture, seemingly scoffing at it and being deliberately mildly transgressive expecting her hosts not to push back against a beautiful charismatic foreigner.
Tena suggests Freddie approach the main adoption agency and ask them to track her biological parents. This is actually why Freddie's here but she has no real considered plan of how to go about it. Tena dutifully agrees to help her.
No good will come of this.
CW: emotional as fuck