The Silent Sea

December 24, 2021

A future Earth, water nearly exhausted. Captain Han Yun-jae (Gong Yoo) leads a specialist team to the abandoned Balhae lunar research station. Their mission: retrieve a sample. The Incheon industrial complex sets establish the station's desolate atmosphere.

December 24, 2021

The team arrives at Balhae. The station is not simply abandoned — something happened here. The evidence of a catastrophic event is everywhere.

December 24, 2021

The sample they were sent to retrieve is connected to the station's catastrophe. Song Ji-an (Bae Doona) begins to understand what Balhae was actually researching.

December 24, 2021

Balhae's research — the thing it discovered and what the government did with that discovery — begins to emerge.

December 24, 2021

The team's internal tensions — different loyalties, different orders — surface as the situation deteriorates.

December 24, 2021

The Space Agency headquarters in Daejeon — the KAIST campus — receives reports from the team. The institutional response to what they are finding is not what the team expected.

December 24, 2021

The team fights to survive the station and each other while the mission's real objective becomes clear.

December 24, 2021

The finale. Netflix's most ambitious Korean sci-fi production at time of release — a drama about water scarcity that used the moon as its setting and governance as its villain.