South Korea, 1998: While the country moves closer towards democracy, Young-oak remains at odds with his female-connotated name while attending a boy's school where the air is thick with testosterone. The young man is struggling to fit in and find a new name among corrupt teachers and the teenagers' violent power games, which are as subtle as they are extreme. Behind his mother Jeong-sun's seemingly unflappable exterior, a past long repressed is reemerging, which she is reluctant to face. Yet confrontation is unavoidable – and it leads back to the national tragedy surrounding the Jeju Uprising of April 3rd, 1948.

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Cast

Yeom Hye-ran

Choi Jeong-sun

Shin Woo-bin

Lee Young-ok (young)

Choi Jun-woo

Ko Min-su (young)

Park Ji-bin

Kyung-tae

Kim Gyu-ri

Hee-ra

Jung In-woo

Kang So-young (young)

Yu Jun-sang

Lee Young-ok

Oh Ji-ho

Ko Min-su

Oh Yoon-ah

Kang So-young

Jeon Seung-hoon

Jo Jung-hwan

Heo Dong-won

Hwang Cheol-gwang

Kim Dong-young

Platoon leader