Synopsis | A magician is hired to spend a day with a young Korean girl, Yunseul, by taking on the role of her father who promised to come back one day. What begins as a paid performance gradually grows into a tender and unexpected bond between them. Although their time together is brief, the day leaves Yunseul with a memory of lasting magic.

Programmer's note | The film connects with the theme of tangibility through the quiet paradox of magic. Magic seems weightless and untouchable, like something made to vanish almost as soon as it appears. Yet the film is moved less by illusion itself than by what illusion leaves behind: a voice, a gesture, a shared presence, a single day of borrowed closeness, which are truly and deeply real. When life hurts most in the face of someone’s absence, the magician offers them another world to lean on, even if that is only for a day. The film suggests that love does not have to be permanent to be real. If believing in an illusion allows us to hold more tightly to reality, then perhaps magic carries a force greater than reality itself, for Yunseul, and for us.

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