A woman's entire life is shamanism. Her son comes home Christian. That collision, that single irreversible moment, shatters everything she built and everything she is. The painting left behind is the only evidence that her world mattered at all. This is a story about belief systems that cannot coexist, about a mother watching her child become a stranger in her own home, about what gets lost when a family chooses different gods. It hits because it never looks away from the cost.
A painting called The Shaman Sorceress is left at the narrator's home by a mute girl and her father, and the story behind it unfolds through the life of Mohwa. She is a shaman who has practiced shamanism all her life and lives with her mute daughter, Nang-Yi. Everything shifts when her son Wook-Yi comes home after several years away studying, now a converted Christian. The clash between mother and son grows into a terrible tragedy for the family, one that leads Nang-Yi to create the mysterious painting. The result is a drama about faith and family.
