One breath between life and death — whose emergency matters more?
Intern KIM Min-ji is ambubagging patient LEE Sook-ja. The 86-year-old Sook-ja's condition is not very well. It looks as if she's ready to depart from the world. Despite constantly paging Sook-ja's grandson and guardian, he has yet to appear. Min-ji is ambubagging Sook-ja when she gets an urgent call from her Mother. Her mother tells her to hurry because Min-ji's sister is having a baby.
Acting
Shin Yoon-jung's hands do the screaming.
Direction
Han Jung-jae traps you in real-time desperation.
Director
Han Jung-jae
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
South Korea's 'ambubagging' became shorthand for futile medical extension of dying elderly — a phenomenon so common it needed its own word.
The 23-minute runtime mirrors actual CPR endurance; Han Jung-jae reportedly timed cuts to real compression cycles.
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