Synopsis | After the death of her mother, Manok closes her lesbian bar, Lainbow, and returns to her hometown of Iban-ri(이반리). But the home she comes back to is still shaped by the same old judgments, exclusions, and the obstructive presence of her ex-husband who is the town chief. Rather than letting the town define or diminish her, Manok decides to enter the race to become the next chief. 

Programmer's note | Manok lets a life arrive in its full weight: through the place one comes from, the gaze one must endure, and the self one continues to claim. Manok returns as someone whose grief, desire, history, and queerness cannot be separated from the way she moves through the world. The film shows that acceptance cannot make her more real, and rejection cannot make her less. Rather than meeting hostility with retreat, it answers it with vitality, using humor to face it from another angle. With laughter as both shield and spark, the film suggests that people can be drawn together, and solidarity can begin as one steps deeper into who they truly are. In the end, Manok becomes a portrait of selfhood in motion. It is a portrait of growing fuller, brighter, and more radiant in the act of standing as oneself.