One day while leaving work, he sees one of the girls sitting on the edge of a windowsill. Frightened he goes up to her room and pulls her back to safety. That's when he notices the scraps and bruises on her face. When he turns to leave, she grabs his hand and takes him to the basement. There he finds the resident director putting a child's head in the washing machine. He stops her, and when the child collapses he takes her to the hospital. Since the student is an orphan he calls Yoo-ri to help.
Yoo-ri finds a note that the student had written saying how she was sexually molested and beaten. They start taking the students to the human rights center where they document their stories. When In-ho mother comes to visit she tells In-ho to just do as he is told to get on the principle's good side so he can get a transfer to Seoul to be with his family (she doesn't know about the molestations). In-ho tries to listen to her advice, but when he looks into the face of a child who has been beaten, he decides to fight for there rights.
Wow. There were some pretty tough scenes to get through. I'm actually a little shocked that parents would let their children act in them. And if I was an adult I would not be able to act out those scenes at all. Yikes. I'm not sure how much of this story is true, but it just sickens me what people are capable of. Definitely not your happy go lucky kind of movie (even though there are times when you will find youself smiling when your not horrified). It's fitting that the town it takes place in, is the city of fog. But this is a pretty moving film. It will make you want to go and protest right now (and maybe hate Korean court). The acting from the children is incredible. And the cinematography was pretty impressive. There were shots that could have been straight out of horror films, they put you on edge.
Rating: ****
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