Set in Seoul during World War II, this Off-Broadway drama follows a young widow looking for work who is kidnapped and made a sex slave, or so-called Comfort Woman, for the Japanese Imperial Army.
Writer and director Dimo Hyun Jun Kim tells the story of Goeun, a young woman who is promised a well-paying job at a factory in Tokyo so that she may support her family. Instead, Goeun is held hostage, transported to Indonesia, and sold into sexual slavery as a "Comfort Woman" to the Japanese Army. She and her fellow Comfort Women navigate this life-altering experience together, befriending each other and planning their impossible escape. Based on the real-life accounts of a few of the 200,000+ women who were trafficked into slavery, the production will send all proceeds to The House of Sharing, the official home of the surviving Comfort Women.
