I had no shovel. How would I get to them all?
-- Narrator (Part I, Chapter 1)

Importance: In Kyungha's recurring dream, she finds herself in the snowy woods surrounded by trees. She discovers that she is in a graveyard when the woods flood and bones rise to the surface. In this moment, she is realizing that she cannot save the people who died here. She ends up running out of the woods to save herself instead. These images are metaphors for Kyungha's generational trauma. She is weighed by her ancestral past and is struggling to reconcile with it. She does not know what to do with her ancestors' stories or how to preserve her own sanity while honoring their lives.

It was the only way, that is if I wanted to go on. Go on living.
-- Narrator (Part I, Chapter 1)

Importance: Kyungha has been plagued by her nightmares for a long time. She decides that she must stop thinking about her...