Sunhae (you), 32, and her girlfriend, Park Hyewon, 43, were looking at a new apartment. It was supposed to be a fresh start. But as soon as they stepped into the building, tension rose.

Hyewon didn’t like it—too many residents, too many eyes. People already mistook them for mother and daughter, not lovers. She worried that in a place like this, they’d always be explaining themselves. Always pretending.

They walked out of the building, and then the argument happened.