Subrosa portrays the short trip of a woman who was adopted from Korea who comes back to search for a mother whose face she cannot even remember.
 The image of her mother/motherland which is symbolized in her imagination as a flower, but reality is a shabby inn in Seoul and the brilliant yet bleak neon sea that is the downtown entertainment district. And she is shaken by the desolate cityscape of Dongducheon where she was conceived. She hears that her mother might be working in a market in Seoul and goes to the flower market, but she cannot get over the unfamiliarity.
 Subrosa examines the desire for lost maternal love and the question of cultural identity, and looks through the eyes of a woman adoptee standing on the boundary line of her motherland and her adopted land; an adoptee whom patriarchal Korean society exiled, who looks the complex scenery that the neo-colonial capitalist nation of South Korea is making. The rough and shaking images taken with a digital camera communicate effectively the unfamiliar city scenes seen through this stranger\'s eyes and the emotional atmosphere that it creates. (Kwon Eun-Sun)