South Korean writer-director July Jung’s second feature, following A Girl at My Door (2014), is a powerful, brilliantly acted psychological drama inspired by real life events. Cheerful, dance-loving high school student Sohee (Kim Si-eun) starts an internship at a call centre. The job soon turns out to be highly demanding and Sohee finds herself disillusioned and struggling to the point where she can’t take it. When detective Oh Yu-jin (Bae Doo-na) investigates her death, she unravels Sohee’s past and the twisted, deeply toxic and exploitative reality of the job market in South Korea – referred to as a “management of terror” by employees, authorities, and the education system alike.

With sobriety and precision, director July Jung depicts a chilling and condensed contemporary portrait of youth exploited by unpaid internships.

This screening will be introduced by film critic Tara Brady, The Irish Times.

Notes by Marie-Pierre Richard, Programme Curator & Co-Organiser, East Asia Film Festival Ireland & EAFFI Discoveries