The story of the unknown and of the past begins when Freddie travels to South Korea. Her foster mother is a little shaken up by her decision to travel to a country she knows next to nothing about. Lost in cultural translation, in the kindness of strangers, and in searching for her biological parents, Freddie is unaware that her path of self-discovery will change its trajectory many times. Her only companion is a single photograph of herself as an infant with the woman she believes to be her mother…

Like the film’s protagonist, Cambodian director Davy Chou was born and raised in France. The original title of this pointillist drama that played in the Un Certain Regard section at Cannes was All the People I’ll Never Be, which contains within itself a broad spectrum including both self-acceptance and the tremors of all that is unknown in existence. The director has said that after meeting a friend who had been adopted as a baby and met her parents only when she was grown up, he felt “a whole mix of emotions: sadness, bitterness, incomprehension, regrets… this situation touched something deep down inside me, so I told myself that I would make a film about it someday.”