Myeong-joo runs a fish shop and raises a child by herself in her hometown. Her sister Myeong-eun works at an advertising company in Seoul after college. The two sisters have different ways of living and ways of feeling sad. The two go out looking for Myeong-eun’s father. However, having different views on details from the purpose of going together, their uncomfortable journey is on the line from the beginning. Director Boo Jiyoung’s Sisters on the Road does not depict the journey of two totally different people as an artificial joining process that could dismiss individuality. It follows the way the two sisters recognize each other and their surroundings as “now, the way it is” while accepting differences. When Myeong-eun empathizes with her niece Seung-ah about having no father, Myong-joo mumbles, “There’s no sin to have wrong parents, so everyone just lives their lives.” Her words remind us that we stay for a while in a family community and scatter. We have our own lives, and after all, it’s our own journey. This theme becomes more obvious in the two characters’ perspectives on the journey in the form of the road movie. And the film leads to the question of “normality,” which often becomes a reason for exclusion in Korean society. [LEE Hayun, ma-te-ri-al]