Sun Moon Timeline & Summary

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• Sun Moon opens the door of her house to find a man dressed in her absent husband's uniform. He confesses to killing her husband.
• Sun Moon makes the impostor Ga sleep in a tunnel outside of the house with the dog until he goes back to work.
• After the incident at Comrade Buc's house, Sun Moon prepares a Japanese tea ritual for Ga. She uses props from her unreleased movie, Comfort Woman.
• Sun Moon accompanies Ga to the Dear Leader's gathering at the opera house. She guides him through the tense and bizarre situation.
• Sun Moon is forced to "taste hunger" by Ga when he feeds her a flower petal.
• Sun Moon sets down rules for living with her replacement husband and makes him promise to protect her children.
• Sun Moon stops Ga as he tells the story of what happened to her real husband in the mines. She can predict how it ends.
• Sun Moon finally receives a new movie script from the Dear Leader, but it's upsetting. When Ga suggests that she rewrite the script, she decides to do it.
• Sun Moon takes her children and Ga to the Martyrs' Cemetery for a picnic. They encounter starving people in the forest, and she reveals her worries about her missing mom.
• Sun Moon and Ga watch Casablanca. She decides to leave North Korea with his help.
• Sun Moon is taken from the park to see the Dear Leader, who misses her and wants to talk about the American rower.
• Sun Moon helps the American rower to clean up. She tries to tell her the story of her grandmother, but they don't speak the same language.
• As Sun Moon prepares to defect, the Dear Leader calls for her again. He gives her dresses and promises her a better life and career. He promises to bring her mother back.
• When Sun Moon returns home, she tells Ga all about herself. She breaks the "no touching" rule in a big way.
• At the airport, Sun Moon sings the allegory of the bear to the Americans, but she gives it a somber tone.
• When it's time, Sun Moon and her children are loaded into the barrels to be smuggled on to the American plane. She tries to get Ga to come with them, but she's unsuccessful.
• In the propaganda version of the story, Sun Moon has been kidnapped by the American aggressors and says a heroic goodbye to impostor Ga as he dives off the plane's wing.