Kyungha gets off the bus in a small coastal town in Jeju where the wind has unexpectedly died and snow falls thick and silent. The shops are shuttered; she fails to flag down the only open shop's owner before he drives away. She walks to a sparse bus stop signpost, hoping for a transit bus to Inseon's village in the uplands.

At the stop she discovers an elderly, hard-of-hearing woman with a cane who reminds her of Inseon's mother. While they wait wordlessly, Kyungha recalls Inseon's documentary about a Vietnamese woman recounting a wartime massacre, the rainstorm footage Inseon shot, and her last visit to Inseon's home, where Inseon made bean juk for her ailing mother. Inseon told her that her mother claimed to have seen Inseon at home the night before the hospital called after her runaway, having made juk for what she feared was her daughter's spirit.

Kyungha also remembers Inseon's two budgies, Ama and Ami, their lightness, fragility, and a lullaby Inseon sang while Ama hummed along. As her migraine and abdominal spasms intensify, she considers giving up and going to Seogwipo for medicine. She tries calling Inseon; a hurried woman's voice tells her to call back later before the line cuts. Her phone battery is nearly dead.

A small bus finally arrives, the last one of the day to Secheon-ri. Kyungha boards with the old woman, unable to name her stop but trusting she'll recognize the ancient hackberry tree near Inseon's house. The woman disembarks alone at a deserted spot, and Kyungha feels an inexplicable pang of farewell. The driver stops to chain the tires; as he does, the calm breaks and the blizzard resumes, shaking the cryptomeria forest. Despite the option to turn back, Kyungha remains on the bus, pressing onward into the storm toward Inseon's home.