Bae Suah si distingue come una delle autrici coreane contemporanee più acclamate, celebrata per il suo stile letterario distintivo e le sue profonde esplorazioni della psiche umana. La sua prosa si addentra nei temi dell'identità, della memoria e dell'alienazione, navigando abilmente le intricate connessioni tra l'individuo e il mondo. Suah impiega magistralmente il linguaggio per creare atmosfere oniriche, immergendo i lettori in un labirinto di pensieri ed emozioni. La sua scrittura è lodata per la sua originalità e la sua capacità di sondare le profondità dell'esperienza umana.
Finishing her last shift at Seoul's only audio theatre for the blind, Kim Ayami heads into the night with her former boss, searching for a missing friend. The following day, she looks after a visiting poet, a man who is not as he seems. Unfolding over a night and a day in the sweltering summer heat, their world's order gives way to chaos, the edges of reality start to fray, and the past intrudes on the present in increasingly disorientating ways.
A nameless narrator passes through her life, searching for meaning and connection in experiences she barely feels. For her, time and identity blur, and all action is reaction. She can’t quite understand what motivates others to take life seriously enough to focus on anything—for her existence is a loosely woven tapestry of fleeting concepts. From losing her virginity to mindless jobs and a splintered, unsupportive family, the lessons learned have less to do with the reality we all share and more to do with the truth of the imagination, which is where the narrator focuses to discover herself.