This is an excerpt from “Nameless” by Hwang Jungeun in the Special Section of KLN Vol. 55. A short story in Hwang’s short story collection Year after Year, it shows the choice the protagonist made to survive, and the memories of his painful past triggered by his mother’s old name. It sheds light on the hidden history of women through the relationships between characters and reinterprets the lives of women in Korean society and history.