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An exploration of different personas in an eclectic collection of four works by critically acclaimed Korean directors.
Miso lives from day to day by housekeeping. Cigarettes and whiskey are the two things that get her through the day. As cigarette prices and rent start to rise, Miso decides to give up her house for cigarettes and whiskey, leading her to couch surf with old friends while reconsidering her place in life.
Hye-jeong, a lonely young girl who has drifted away from her family and avoids personal relationships, works in a factory, lives in a shared apartment, and leads an insipid and meaningless existence until one night she discovers that she has become a ghost.
A former Asian Games record breaker and Olympic tryout, Kim Gwang-su, endures beatings, abuse, and constant ridicule from his swimming coach. To justify this abusive behavior, his coach constantly reminded Gwang-su - this is for your own good.
Young-shin is locked up in a fat camp against her own will. After kissing her roommate, the boring days at the camp turns into a small turmoil.
After three years of coma, Su-an wakes up to find the ghost of her dead sister asking for help but cannot understand what exactly she requires. Their mother, Geum-ok, believed to have lost her firstborn child to suicide, searches for the truth behind the death as a centuries-old family curse slowly reveals itself. As the two collide in a quest to discover the past and present reality, they come across Jae-in, an exact look-alike of the deceased sister.
When Man-seob comes back to school after completing military service, he organizes the school's Jokgu team to win Anna's heart.
20-year-old Jeong-hee doesn't go to college and works part-time. She goes to meet Min-young, her old high school roommate, for the first time in a while and wants to play with her as before. However, Min-young, a college student, is busy sending correction emails for her credits and feels uncomfortable by Jeong-hee's visit.
Park Goo mutates into a man-fish due to side effects from an experimental drug. He receives heavy publicity and becomes a star. A conspiracy by a pharmaceutical company leads Park Goo to being possibly expelled from the world.
Hwa-ja has been raising three daughters alone in Busan after her husband passed away. One day, the second daughter Hye-young comes back to Busan after having continuous setbacks in Seoul. While spending time with her mom, she accidently sees a letter written in Japanese, which triggers her curiosity. She starts to ask Hwa-ja about her past life and gets to know new stories of her mother that she had never heard of.
Attention seeker YouTuber Jang Hada is trying to get popular again. One day, legendary singer Yoon Sinae disappears. So, Hada uses her mother, an imitation singer Yeon Sinae, as a live broadcasting material and gets enthusiastic responses from subscribers. Meanwhile, Yeon Sinae, who is despairing after losing the dream stage, decides to leave in search of Yoon Sinae with fellow imitation singer Woon Sinae. And Hada secretly set up a live broadcast.
When her son who lives in a single room is given an outrageous $1,000 water bill, a mother decides to become a detective and find out what is behind it.
An anthology of three short films by Kim Jeong-in, Jung So-young, and Hwang Seul-gi. It uses food and people to capture the warmth of everyday life that everyone can relate to.
Kye-na, an average woman in her late twenties, holds a steady job and a committed boyfriend, Ji-myoung. Yet instead of feeling content, she constantly faces uncertainty, confusion and anxiety. While struggling with personal relationships and life's woes, Kye-na finally embarks for New Zealand despite everyone’s dissuasion on leaving her home behind.
As Jeong-ah attempts to rebuild her career a year after giving birth to her first child, she faces difficulties that put her through the test of whether she can truly have it all.
At the age of 93, my dear grandma tried to commit suicide. I am so afraid that she might go away, but I am spending time with her so as to make our farewell more beautiful and warmer.
Chun-hee is left alone in the world after the sudden death of her husband. Faced with her own illness, she puts her life in order, but she intends to keep the appointment she made with her husband for an assisted suicide.
Shortly before the start of music class, where the teacher forces the students to sing as a punishment, Hansel, a high school student, realizes that she has forgotten to bring her recorder. For Hansel, the idea of singing in front of her classmates is worse than death, so she rushes home to get her recorder.
A priest (Park Hyukkwon) with financial difficulties has to find money for his mother-in-law’s surgery. Once a faithful believer, the priest is tempted to commit a crime, while his wife (Ryu Hyunkyung) meets a wealthy old friend who makes an insulting proposal.
