CLEAR
Zoo-young and her contrabass are wandering in space after leaving their planet due to a food shortage. Meanwhile, Earth is overflowing with plastic, their staple food, and Pu-reum lives there. Pu-reum's song guides Zoo-young and the contrabass back to Earth, and after a long journey toward each other, they finally meet.
Summary
In CLEAR, Zoo-young drifts through outer space with her contrabass after leaving a dying planet where food has become dangerously scarce. Their long voyage is both a literal search for survival and an uncertain passage into the unknown, shaped by isolation, exhaustion, and the hope of finding somewhere they might belong. Far away, Earth faces the opposite crisis: it is overwhelmed by plastic, a material that has become a staple of life there. Pu-reum lives amid this strange, polluted abundance, and her music becomes an unexpected signal across the void. The song she creates guides Zoo-young and the contrabass toward Earth, setting two distant lives on a slow course toward one another. Blending science fiction, ecological fable, and musical fantasy, the film uses its unusual premise to explore scarcity and excess, displacement and belonging, and the ways communication can bridge seemingly impossible distances. Its contrast between a planet starving for resources and an Earth buried beneath them gives the story a gently surreal but pointed environmental perspective. At its heart, CLEAR is about connection: how art, empathy, and the desire to be heard can offer direction even in a vast and hostile universe.
