Sophie Bredier first emerged on the international stage at the 1998 Busan International Film Festival, presenting her feature-length documentary Our Silent Traces at the age of 26. As one of the pioneering adoptee filmmakers to return to Korea, Bredier explored her personal experiences through cinema, retracing her past by following the physical and emotional marks left on her body. Now, after a rich career spanning roles as an actress, critic, and filmmaker, Bredier returns as a middle-aged woman who has lost her adoptive mother and is raising a teenage daughter. Her latest work, Patience, sweetheart, captures this new chapter in her life with profound intimacy. The film follows Bredier as she cleans out her late adoptive mother's lakeside home, grappling with the task of fulfilling her mother's final wish to scatter her ashes in the water. This process becomes a metaphor for a deeper emotional journey. Unlike her adoptive mother, who wanted Bredier to sever all ties to her pre-adoption life and Korean heritage, Bredier has devoted her career to autobiographical filmmaking, continuously exploring her roots. Now faced with bidding farewell to both her biological and adoptive mothers, Bredier finds an emotional anchor in her daughter, Lucy. This difficult journey of reconciliation becomes a starting point for crafting a new emotional legacy for Lucy, who is being raised by a mother born in Korea and adopted in France. Patience, sweetheart transcends the patriarchal notion of searching for one's roots. Instead, it beautifully depicts a matrilineal legacy based on understanding, reconciliation, and connection among women.