In every blade, a bloodline. In every dance, a wound unspoken.
A gay Korean-Filipino dancer and his Korean aunt, bound by their patriarch’s dementia, clash over a missing heirloom dagger as they each struggle for acceptance – he in a foreign land; she, within a tradition that denies her.
Paul Sta. Ana
Writer, Director
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