The story is about the furtive lives in a remote village where is misty all the time. Soo-ok assigned to an elementary school to the small village. There is one insane guy, Kkae-chul, hanging around, but for some reason people treat him well, giving food and allowing to sleep in their houses.
Soo-ok guesses that women in the village sleep with him, but Kkae-chul is known as impotent. One day Soo-ok's fiancee supposed to visit her, but he couldn't. On the way back disappointedly, it suddenly rains and she is raped by him. She realizes that men satisfy their desire from a mute hostess, women do from Kka-chul in the village. She leaves, and a new female teacher comes. Kkae -chul is near them, but Soo-ok does not say anything about him to her.
This film is by Kwon-taek IM, the representative director in Korea. It is based on a short novel. It unveils the repressed desire of women which is dissolved secretly. Long takes and long shots describe the static, but not actually, village.
The scene, she is raped by Kka-chul and she resists first but later feels pleasure. It is quite male-centric viewpoint, and the scene is unnecessarily long and exaggerated just like the other erotic films. Maybe the director compromised commercial demands.
The last scene is very impressive, it implies Kka-chul is sort of uncontrollable and inevitable evil existence in our mind and society.
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