 Kim stated that she was inspired to tell Shin's story after seeing "Requiem" displayed at the National Museum of Contemporary Art and reading articles in the domestic press about Koreans in Uzbekistan.Through the film, she hoped "to convey the earnest wishes and lost dreams of the victims, rather than render a bleak ambiance of the hurt and resentment endured by Koreans as a minority race in the former Soviet Union and Central Asia at the present time.