Geum-soon, once a top-ranked volleyball player, is now a common housewife with a six-month old daughter and a clumsy husband. On the first day her husband goes to work, she spends the day taking care of her little daughter who never stops crying. While Gum-soon is busy cleaning her house upon hearing her parents-in-law are coming on the next day, she gets a phone call from a club that they've arrested her husband for an unpaid bill. Amidst the merciless threatening of the gang in the club, Geum-soon rushes out into the night streets, still carrying her baby on her back. It's past midnight with less than three hours to go before her in-laws arrive. In the seediest part of Seoul, Geum-soon's husband is practically being held for ransom for the alcohol he didn't drink, Geum-soon has no clue where the bar is, two rival gangs are chasing after her, the pot is boiling at home, and her daughter is wailing while Geum-soon is leaping over trash cans in a dark alley.
Acting
Bae Doona's physical comedy while carrying an actual baby through Seoul.
Direction
Real-time tension built from domestic pressure, not action spectacle.
Production
Early 2000s Seoul captured in neon-soaked desperation.
Director
Hyeon Nam-Seob
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Bae Doona performed many stunts while carrying a real infant, reportedly refusing a dummy for authenticity.
The film satirizes Korea's 1997 IMF crisis aftermath, where former athletes like Geum-soon faced collapsed career prospects and desperate domesticity.
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