WITH: Together Along the Way

Title: WITH: Together Along the Way

Genre: Science Fiction / Human Drama

Logline: After her botany graduation thesis is rejected because "living organisms no longer hold any value," Yuna travels to her grandfather Hongsik's desolate countryside in search of real plants. There, she encounters the lives that her grandfather and an aging home robot named WITH have protected for years, and begins a journey to preserve what matters far more than graduation.

Project Vision: WITH is not simply a story about protecting plants. It is a story about those who continue to remember, wait, and protect someone until the very end because they love them. No matter how advanced technology becomes, there remains one value that never changes: love. We believe that love sustains life, preserves memories, and ultimately creates new hope.

Setting: Near-future South Korea, 2044.

Synopsis: In 2044, the megacorporation DYNE has established the perfect metropolis of Neo Seoul, monopolizing energy, food production, and urban infrastructure. Human labor and nature are considered obsolete, while DYNE's AI systems have replaced nearly every aspect of society. Yuna, a botany student, has her graduation thesis rejected after being told that "living plants are no longer worth studying." Determined to study real living organisms, she visits her grandfather Hongsik in the countryside for the first time in years. What she finds is a land so devastated that even crops can barely survive. There, Yuna discovers a hidden greenhouse and the last remaining living plants, secretly protected for fourteen years by an aging home robot named WITH. As she relives precious family memories preserved in WITH's recordings, the transmission process unexpectedly activates the signal of THANAT, a failed experimental AI hidden by Mr. Park. The interference exposes both WITH's records and the remaining life forms to DYNE's surveillance network. To recover THANAT and erase every remaining trace of the preserved life and memories, DYNE dispatches a retrieval team. During the confrontation, Hongsik loses his life. Carrying Hongsik's final wish, WITH resolves to protect Yuna. Together with WITH, Mr. Park, and Jinwoo, Yuna chooses to escape DYNE's relentless pursuit and fight to preserve the last remnants of life and memory.