Make My Day

Hee-Jin is a young Korean woman who lives in Berlin. She is tired of the monotonous torpor that surrounds her group of friends and decides to leave for Paris in search of love and happiness. But the reality she finds there soon disillusions her.

"When I began working on this project, two friends of mine from Berlin belonged to that generation of thirty-year-old, unemployed college graduates. They were going through a period in which their lives seemed like a desperate series of humiliations, and I began working on their stories, transposing them into fiction. What interested me most was the apparent normality with which they faced their crises. The story developed along with the film. A few characters were added on and their situations stimulated my imagination even more. This variety of stories created an image of daily life in which crises and normality overlap and in which the efforts to find a place for oneself only lead to temporary solutions. In this universe in which people vainly try to change their life, Hee-Jin is a wandering figure among the wanderers." (H. Goetz)