In the suburbs of New Jersey, Korean-American Peter is starting a new life with his mysterious bride,Sook-hy, whom he met through a marriage broker in Korea. She chose this foreign country to avoid thepower of shamanism, but her fate doesn’t let her run way from it. The film portraits church-basedKorean communities in states, where the traditional values are rather ignored by American pragmatismand conflict arises between two different cultures - orient and occident. The t...
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In the suburbs of New Jersey, Korean-American Peter is starting a new life with his mysterious bride,Sook-hy, whom he met through a marriage broker in Korea. She chose this foreign country to avoid thepower of shamanism, but her fate doesn’t let her run way from it. The film portraits church-basedKorean communities in states, where the traditional values are rather ignored by American pragmatismand conflict arises between two different cultures - orient and occident. The two cultures get close andwrecked, just as Sook-hy tries to be American woman imitating her neighbor Julie.
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