Two Danish-Korean adoptees return to Seoul in search of their birth mothers. Staying at the Koroot guesthouse, they meet and exchange confidences with other transnational adoptees from around the world who struggle with similar experiences: grief, frustration and a longing for something without knowing exactly what. The Return uses fictional elements to construct and deconstruct feelings of being caught between cultures and identities. Performance is used to protect the adoptees, allowing them to speak from the heart without fear of criticism or insult. Scripted scenes expand their personal stories to include more than just the facts, since records are routinely lost, falsified or nonexistent. Defining a person's sense of self and belonging doesn't fit neatly into reality and requires dreaming, questing and characterization. Where you come from might be tied to time and space, but who you are is more related to feeling, like a foggy vanishing point that seems fixed, but isn't. Angie Driscoll