There, she finds comfort and healing in the changing seasons, the food she prepares and the relationships she rekindles with childhood friends. During the Q & A session, Yim explained that she deliberately avoided including stereotypical foods such as kimchi, since Korean audiences were already too familiar with them. Instead, she highlighted dishes that underscored the intimate bond between Hye-won and food, a connection meant to mirror the relationship between Hye-won and her mother. For Yim, the story is not a call to retreat into the countryside, but an invitation for each of us to cultivate our own “little forest,” wherever that may be. The film suggests that healing is not found in drastic escapes but in ordinary moments we often overlook.