Shim Ji-yu

South Korea, 1998: While the country moves closer towards democracy, Young-oak remains at odds with his female-connotated name while attending a boy's school where the air is thick with testosterone. The young man is struggling to fit in and find a new name among corrupt teachers and the teenagers' violent power games, which are as subtle as they are extreme. Behind his mother Jeong-sun's seemingly unflappable exterior, a past long repressed is reemerging, which she is reluctant to face. Yet confrontation is unavoidable – and it leads back to the national tragedy surrounding the Jeju Uprising of April 3rd, 1948.

First, never leave the house. Second, take your medicine and sleep once it gets dark. Third, never touch the locked doors. Having spent his entire life trapped inside under his father's strict rules, Jae-jun begins to question everything. Myung-sook, who cares alone for her father suffering from dementia, encounters an unidentified woman in the mountains on the anniversary of her daughter's death. And on the day of a move-in cleaning, Jung-hye finds herself alone with the cleaners when her husband suddenly stops answering her calls…