It is the winter of 1954 and in the rubble-strewn aftermath of the Korean war Marilyn Monroe has come to Seoul to perform to the US soldiers stationed there. Alice, the woman chosen to be Marilyn's translator, was once Kim Ae-sun, before her name was stolen from her - along with so much else - by the war. Alice works as a typist for the US military. It is a job that has enabled her to survive, and to forget.  How do you translate the present, when you can't let go of the past?