La independencia inconclusa

Comic-book artist Jung returns to Seoul for the first time since he was abandoned at the age of 5. European on the heads side, Asian on the tails side. Cartoonist. 42 years old according to his civil status, Jung prefers to place his birth at the age of 5, when a policeman found him wandering alone on the streets of Seoul. He is one of those 200 000 adopted Koreans spread around the world. Jung decided to return, for the first time, in South Korea, in order to breath the air of his home country, tread the land of his ancestors, and maybe find traces of his biological mother. This trip of reconciliation with his roots and with himself, shot as a documentary, leads our character to recall in animation —Anonymous Taken in by a policeman in a street of Seoul, Jung, a little orphan, is later adopted by a Belgian family. When he arrives in Walloon Babant, the little boy is totally disoriented: his only point of reference is a... bottle of Coca-Cola! But, little by little, he grows accustomed to his white catholic family, his authoritative mother, his tender father, his four brothers and sisters. Accustomed but not appeased. Who is Jung actually, a Belgian?, a Korean?, a Japanese? Should he go back to his roots or reject them? So many insecurities lead to trouble, nightmares, misbehavior and punishment. Fortunately Jung discovers he has a talent : drawing... —Guy Bellinger