Inseon retrieves a box from a high shelf and opens it before Kyungha by candlelight. Inside are bundles of newspaper clippings dated 1960, photographs, and letters her mother Jeongsim had hidden away. Inseon admits she didn't truly know her mother. The first clipping describes joint memorial rites for massacre victims of Gyeongbuk Province, with passages underlined in her mother's distinctive handwriting.

Inseon unwraps a silk-bound letter from a bamboo box. Postmarked Daegu in May 1950 and stamped "Censored," it was written by her uncle Kang Jeonghun, imprisoned for six years. He reassures his younger sister Jeongsim and tells her, via a postscript, to comfort her older sister Jeongsook. Inseon recounts how, after Hanjinae was burned, her mother and aunt lived with relatives. The sisters once visited Jeonghun in a sweet-potato storehouse where prisoners were held; Jeongsim regretted teasing him about his hair. A week later they brought food and ate together. The week after, he was gone—shipped out overnight—and the sisters waited in vain.

Kyungha recalls reading in a library about Jeju's scorched-earth massacres and a survivor's testimony of being shipped to Mokpo, where a mother was forced to abandon her dead baby on the dock. Inseon explains the silk wrapping was sewn into the lining of her mother's sewing box. After the Korean War broke out, the letters stopped, but the family believed Jeonghun safe at Daegu Penitentiary, south of the Nakdong front.

In May 1954, Jeongsim and Jeongsook traveled to Daegu Penitentiary, then Jinju, then Yeosu searching for him. There was no record beyond a July 1950 transfer to Jinju. Jeongsook declared him dead and they parted; she moved to Seoul, while Jeongsim stayed to care for their grandmother. Inseon then shows Kyungha photocopies of a prisoner list with Kang Jeonghun's name marked, stamped "Transferred to Jinju" on July 9, 1950, with a hidden notation: "Handed over to army/police."

Inseon explains the Bodo League killings—an estimated 200,000-300,000 nationwide—and shows a photo of skulls in the Gyeongsan cobalt mine, where roughly 3,500 were killed, including 140 from Jeju. Based on transfer dates, Jeonghun was likely killed in the mine itself. Kyungha realizes the documents came from Inseon's elderly relative she met at the hospital. After her grandmother died in 1960, Jeongsim, age twenty-five, refused marriage, bought this house, and began searching for her brother's remains, attending memorial rites and contacting the bereaved families' association in Daegu—until its leaders were arrested after the 1961 military coup. The archive then falls silent for thirty-four years, until civilian rule returned.