Summary

Hyeonseo arrives at Mr. and Mrs. Ahn's house on the border. Mrs. Ahn promises to get one of the smugglers they know to search for her family and Hyeonseo returns to Shenyang. A few weeks later, her brother Min-ho phones her from Mr. Ahn's house. As she prepares to travel back to the border to see him, the broker she also hired calls to tell her he found her family as well.

At Mr. Ahn's house, Hyeonseo and Min-ho are reunited. However, their visit is cut short when a gang, hired by the broker, arrives at the door. They take Hyeonseo to an unfurnished apartment and insist she pay them the equivalent of $8,500 for their services. She does not have anywhere close to that amount of money and the gang threatens to take her back to North Korea if she does...