BORROWED SKIES
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In the bustling port city of Busan, seven-year-old Park Jeong-min is drowning in the silence of his father's death. Half a world away, in the emerald forests of the DRC, Kimya watches the horizon for the smoke of a civil war she is too young to understand. Linked by a simple pen-pal exchangeㅡ a pair of white sneakers for a wax cloth braceletㅡthe two children share a desperate, whispered wish: to be anyone else.
Then, they wake up in each other's skin.
The magical escape becomes a lifelong haunting. At seven, ten, and fourteen, the swap yanks them across continents into each other's trauma.
Jeong-min learns survival in a war zone; Kimya navigates South Korea's academic pressures.
When a violent spiritual intervention at age fifteen severs their connection. The swaps end.
Jeong-min is left in Seoul, haunted by Kimya trapped in a conflict he can no longer see.
Driven by a debt he cannot name, Jeong-min builds a life of cold, medical precision, hoping to find her through the very systems that keep them apart. From the high-stakes world of a Korean medical residency to the front lines of a global refugee crisis, he is looking for his phantom limb.
Jeong Min doesn't know Kimya is searching for him, too.
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