Someday [언젠가는]

“Soon we will be happy and look back and everything will have been worth it.” Fueled by the promise of opportunity and happiness, a Korean family separates. Moon Hee, a fourteen-year-old Korean girl, and Eun Jung, her working mother, head to New Jersey. Moon Hee's father, Dae Han, stays behind in Korea for his job. It sounds like a good deal. Five years. Moon Hee gets an education in the United States. Eun Jung expands her career abroad. Dae Han picks himself up. In five years they’ll reunite, better than they were. However, it soon becomes clear that their equation for happiness might not be so simply resolved.

During the 2022 production, runtime was around 2 hours.

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The production featured a talking, morphing television played by an actor behind a screen with a projector

Someday [언젠가는] was inspired by my own childhood growing up in a wild goose family(기러기 가족), A wild goose family is the Korean phrase for a family in which the mother and the child go abroad for the child’s education, while the father stays behind in Korea to work. It is common for wild geese families to stay separated for years on end, in hopes of reaching a nebulous goal of success and happiness in the future. Someday asks how much you can sacrifice for the future before destroying the present beyond repair.