The movie is based on the life of Laure Badufle, a friend of director Davy Chou. Like Freddie, she was born in South Korea, stayed a year there before being adopted in France. At age 23, she came back and lived for two years there before returning to France. A few years after that, Chou accompanied her to South Korea, when they met her biological father and grandmother. According to him, the meeting was full of emotions, of regret and bad communication, with the translator struggling to convey Badufle's anger into polite Korean.
First film as an actress of visual artist Park Ji-min.
First movie role for Park Ji-min, who is a plastic artist. During pre-production, she had a lot of questions and criticisms regarding the script, and pushed director Davy Chou to identify some clichés about gender roles, seduction or clothing he unconsciously put in the character of Freddie. As a result, the character in the movie is very much a product of the two of them.
The story is set successively in 2013, 2015, 2020 and 2021.
Official submission of Cambodia for the 'Best International Feature Film' category of the 95th Academy Awards in 2023.