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The story of a planet where deaf and blind people live and one is just desperate to be understood.

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South Korean Young-Chan is the ‘snail’ of Yi Seung-jun’s prize-winning documentary.

Deaf and blind, he’s reliant on his tactile senses, using finger-tapping to communicate.

His wife Soon-ho has a debilitating spinal problem, so what emerges is a touching study (in more ways than one) of the trials, terrors and triumphs of living with physical disability.

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