What if the teacher who hurt you was actually trying to save your life?
On May 27, 1980—the last day of the Gwangju Uprising—students at Sinheung High School in Jeonju defied martial law. Their teacher disciplined them to protect them, but this act of love left forty years of misunderstanding. Now in his nineties, the teacher reunites with his former students to finally offer each other the reconciliation they had long set aside.
Direction
Kim Jong-kwan lets silence do the screaming.
Writing
Forty years of pain, unpacked in one room.
Director
Kim Jong-kwan
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