La classe de grec

In Seoul, a woman attends ancient Greek classes. Her teacher asks her to read aloud but she remains silent; she has lost the ability to speak, as well as her mother and custody of an eight-year-old son. Her only hope of regaining her speech is by learning a dead language. The professor, who has just returned to Korea after spending half his life in Germany, finds himself torn between two cultures and two languages. He too faces losses: his eyesight worsens irreversibly with each passing day, and he lives with the fear of knowing that , when total blindness arrives, he will lose all autonomy. With unusual beauty, the intimate voices of these two protagonists intertwine and intersect in a moment of despair. Is it possible that they find in the other the way to save themselves, that darkness give way to light and silence to the word?