Content Warning: This section of the guide includes discussion of graphic violence, illness, and death.

Kyungha looks up from the oral histories to find that the room is shrouded in darkness. Inseon tells her that her father developed a heart condition as a result of having been tortured. The two discuss Inseon’s decision to quit making films as well as their proposed project, which Kyungha adamantly maintains they abandon. 

Kyungha thinks back to their early days of friendship. Inseon had been out of college for two years when they met, and Kyungha recalls feeling that Inseon was much more mature than she was. She remembers a picnic they took to a mountain and folk stories about a group of tall stones on the mountain: They were women who were turned to stone because they had been instructed to flee and not look back at their village, but they disobeyed. Kyungha has long been grateful for Inseon’s friendship; the two passed all their life’s milestones together, including when each woman buried her parents. 

Inseon shows Kyungha the contents of some of the many boxes she noticed upon her arrival, and Kyungha realizes that Inseon has spent years out here, alone on Jeju, poring through oral histories of the massacre.