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Comrade Kim Yong Mi is a 28-year-old coal miner who lives with her father and grandmother in the North Korean countryside. During her youth, Kim often dreamed of becoming an acrobat, a dream supported by her mother. After her mother’s death, her father insisted on coal mining as a future. Kim’s love for acrobats, however, never goes away. When she travels to Pyongyang to work at the construction site for a year, the first thing she does is visiting the circus, where the opportunity to live her dream arrives.

This is the first Western-financed feature film made entirely in North Korea.