Every year, a rocket launches into space from Naro Island.

In spring, Jaewon enters the first grade at the island’s only elementary school. There are only 36 students in the whole school. Naro is Jaewon’s home; he lives in the village closest to the Space Center. In Yenae Village, he can watch rockets from his backyard. His mother used to work as an administrator in the Space Center; his father supplies LPG gas throughout Naro.

This year is the 100th year anniversary of Jaewon’s school. It’s a momentous occasion, but the school is unlikely to last another century.

With an ensemble of characters, the film follows a year of Jaewon’s life on Naro Island. How will Jaewon slowly discover what it means to lose something? And to be forgotten? In between the rocket launches and the TikTok videos, Jaewon discovers traces of sadness: a poem written by the villagers who lost their home to the Space Center. The cold winter beach devoid of people, where he and Eunchong are the only children for miles. And the strange loneliness and quiet after a rocket disappears into smoke.

Little by little, Jaewon learns about the shadows facing Naro’s future and his own.