"Bold, raw, personal storytelling at its best, one of best uses of audio as a medium."

- Yooree Losordo, Radiotopia from PRX

Moonface is a six‑part fiction podcast that feels like discovering a diary slipped between the pages of a beautifully shot indie film—sharp, tender, and utterly alive. Created by James Kim and brought gasping to life by Joel Kim Booster as Paul, a second‑generation Korean‑American, the story centers on one pivotal question: how do you come out to your mother when you can’t even speak the same language? Paul lives at home in suburban Downey, California, and the distance between him and his mom is as literal as it is emotional. Their conversations—a scramble of English and Korean—are stuttering, elegiac, full of meals eaten in awkward silence or bursts of miscommunication that reveal heartbreaking truths. Sound design and music pulse with feeling: the moans of intimacy, the clatter of dinner dishes, a nightclub beat that softens into confession. In its best moments, Moonface makes the invisible ache of love—and the chasm of cultural inheritance—irresistibly, achingly audible. It doesn’t resolve so much as resonate.