Yeong-ha is a teenager living with her mother who has recently remarried. After the high school exam, Yeong-ha is home together with her step-father and encounters something unexpected. After thinking it over, she decides to tell her mother what happened.
Acting
Kwon Han-sol's face does what dialogue cannot.
Direction
Kim Yu-ri frames domestic space as threat.
Editing
Conversations cut away before answers.
Director
Kim Yu-ri
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Korean indie cinema's #MeToo wave, released same year as Burning and Kim Ji-young. The silence is national.
The title's 'sub-zero wind' refers to Seoul's winter exams—metaphor for emotional frost that follows disclosure.
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