The title of the documentary, named for the exhibition The Orchid and the Sword held in memory of independentista Woodang Lee Heo-yung in 2014, makes us suppose that it would be a work dealing with the life of an independentista forgotten. But what stands out for the run of the film, it is the lives of two persons, a researcher considering the lives of independentist as his life and his daughter grown up under his influence. And the director of the documentary, a friend of the daughter, isn't much noted for her voice, but takes an instance in the film by observing them. At first the director delivers the purpose of this work as a narrator in the first person in the film. But as the researcher Chung In-hwa and his daughter Chung Dahoon appear one by one, the role of the director as a narrator pales into insignificance. The conversation between the father and the daughter is not only comprised of intellectual and sentimental comments on the history, but also it is personal. Here, the director does not disappear but remains as a person with a personal position to hear the truth the daughter could not tell to her father or to envy the friend for the relationship with her father. In the course of their journey, the tone of the documentary moves from a historical work, through a documentary dealing with persons, to a personal documentary for the director. It shows that the personal is inseparable from the history. [Kim So-hui]