Can't I leave?

The lives and identities of two women intertwine during World War II and the Korean War to reveal the harsh truths of class division in the first half of the twentieth century. "Can't I leave?" follows the life of a daughter of a Korean noble and her maid in the early twentieth century. When the daughter's fiancé is arrested as a Korean independence activist, and she becomes involved during the investigation, she is quickly forced to marry one of her father's Japanese employees and travels to the United States. At the same time, her maid is sent to be a comfort woman for the Japanese Imperial Army. Korean comfort women were exploited by the Japanese Imperial Army in the most heinous ways. This is followed by years of hardship, attempts at survival, and even happiness. After World War II, the two women return home, where they must forget the complicated lives they lived, in an effort to reclaim their identities and find their place in independent Korea. "Can't I leave?" is an exceptional historical work full of twists and surprises, joys and pains, shedding light on the history of a nation; its suffering and struggle, but at the same time it does not fail to focus on the lives of its two main characters.