Madang is a cartoonist and new father who moves to the countryside with his wife and young son. He's excited to live in a quiet little town where they have space for a garden and a chicken coop, but he is constantly having to drive back into Seoul to care for his parents, whose health is rapidly declining. Madang loves his mother and strives to recreate many of the healthy, home-cooked meals she made in his childhood for his own son. He has a much more challenging relationship with his father, an abusive alcoholic who he had cut out of his life earlier, but now pities. At home, Madang's world is full of new life, growth, busy days, creative pursuits- while his parent's days are empty, and they both seem to have lost a will to live. Madang and his brother struggle to pay the mounting hospital bills and mentally prepare to lose one or both of their parents within the year. The cold, uncomfortable hospital halls are a stark contrast to the richly drawn, detailed nature scenes. I liked how the artist placed with scale- when he feels overwhelmed, he often shrinks down to a few inches high while his problems loom over him.