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
This international drama has no real stakes or tension but it is astonishingly affecting.
Ji-Min Park is astonishing as the manic nightmare pixie girl who goes around using up and casting aside people in the search for something she can't have.
Freddie has a kind of resting bitch face that shows dissatisfaction with the whole world any time it's not filling her emptiness with pleasure or doing her a service.
She's not evil but she is a devouring black hole.
As things run on we begin to skip years and there's eventually some comfort that maybe fills that hole.
Highly recommended emotional fare 9/10.