An immigrant tale, reimagined. 1950s Parisian elites led by Chris Marker and Claude Lanzmann visit the newly established communist state of North Korea that claims the allegiance of the filmmaker’s grandmother during the Korean War. An autobiographical investigation of family separation, sparked by the voyage of French luminaries and their artistic output – films, photographs and published memoirs – that emerged from this unique intercultural encounter. Ciné‐roman meets diasporic essay film in this prismatic exploration of transnational identities and their dislocations.