Since you've never worn a prison uniform made of Siberian tiger whiskers or drowsed resignedly on your predecessor's ramshackle bone splinters, you don't know what it's like to be North Korean. And if that's true, you can't imagine what it's like to be no longer North Korean. But you know what it's like to wake up to a different world. Maybe one in which nearly every living thing falls asleep upon seeing you, and where the woman you've seen in your dreams for years turns out to be real. What would you do if you learned that she's been abducted and taken back to North Korea? Would you enlist the help of a family of immigrant smugglers and try to rescue her? Popo Wakes Up is the story of a man who would.