Ji-sook, a teahouse owner in a seaside town, newly hires three ladies who are also experienced in the teahouse’s sideline of prostitution. The lives of the new employees reflect the pain and anguish of Ji-sook’s past. In this controversial work of Im Kwon-taek, like Kilsodeum, narrative includes and collides with latent emotional energy.
Ji-sook, a teahouse owner in a seaside town, newly hires three ladies who are also experienced in the teahouse’s sideline of prostitution. The lives of the new employees reflect the pain and anguish of Ji-sook’s past. In this controversial work of Im Kwon-taek, like Kilsodeum, narrative includes and collides with latent emotional energy.