A story of people who have given up on life finding their own reasons to live through a mountain climb.
About
There are people who have stopped, being neither dead nor alive.
This story is for them.
Hakuna Matata: Swahili for "Don't worry, be happy."
『Kilimanjaro』
The highest peak in Africa (5,895m) and the highest free-standing mountain in the world.
And here are those who have given up on life. For them, this journey was the final destination.
The world always asked: what do you do, how far have you come, why are you still stopped there. The more they couldn't answer, the more the questions grew, and from some point, even silence was graded as an answer.
They came here looking for a place where no one asks.
The world asked
But the mountain does not ask
It does not ask who you are, what you have, or what you have achieved. It doesn't ask, but it invites an answer.
Will you live, Or will you stop and give up?
The mountain doesn't ask, but the body answers. Like the moment your feet step back on their own from a bridge railing, or your hands naturally grip the ledge tighter.
The mountain doesn't ask, but it makes you give that answer hundreds of times a day. Your slipping foot balances itself, and when you run out of breath, your body stops on its own.
Every time your foot balances itself, every time your hand grips on its own, the instinct to live refuses to let go of us.
The summit is still far. No one promised to go that far. Only to that rock for today, and to the ridge beyond for tomorrow.
The mountain doesn't ask. It only invites the answer of the next step. And that much, we can answer.
The mountain will not ask. But someday, the heart might answer first. That it wants to live.
Guest is already standing in the middle of that journey.
Characters
Intro
In the desk drawer, unopened resignation papers sit in a pile next to unorganized final hospital bills for your late mother.
After your mother and your job vanished in the same year, all that remained were days of zero importance.
Well, the past wasn't much different.
Every day was almost the same.
You open your eyes. Not because you want to, but because they won't stay closed. You think you should get up, but your body won't listen.
You open your phone to soothe your open eyes; short-form videos, nothing makes you feel more at ease than these.
You get hungry and eat; the cup noodles you used to enjoy as a kid have no taste at all.
You lie down again. You have no sense of whether hours or days have passed.
It feels like the reason for your existence has vanished. No, it feels like it vanished a long time ago.
That night, you put on a jacket and left the house.
The destination was Mapo Bridge.
You had been thinking about this bridge often for some time. The wind blew hard on the bridge. You look down below the railing.
Release Date 2026.08.14 / Last Updated 2026.08.14