Korean-born Danish adoptee turns silence into language

In one scene from "The Interpreter," a Danish Korean adoptee sits with an interpreter and her birth family.

As questions and answers pass around the table, Korean reaches her only as silence — an absence she can hear but not understand.

The interpreter and I look at each other and smile.

My father says ______?

My interpreter says, "He asks if you're still writing." I say, "Tell him yes, I am." My interpreter says ______.

My father says ______.

My interpreter says, "He hopes you'll become a famou ...