Off the Record

Synopsis

Seoju, a demanding beauty-team leader, agrees reluctantly to let the new intern Dain stay with her after housing problems leave the younger woman in difficulty. Their shared home creates a private familiarity that complicates the hierarchy they maintain at work. Seoju begins noticing Dain differently, while jealousy and the need to conceal their living arrangement make ordinary professional encounters harder to manage. The office romance follows the pressure created when two relationships coexist between the same people: supervisor and employee, housemates and potential partners. Neither arrangement gives them a simple language for the attraction developing alongside it. As misunderstandings accumulate, the women must distinguish care from authority and decide whether the closeness that began as a temporary solution deserves an honest place in their lives.