Last Child

Grieving parents Sung-cheol and Mi-sook take an interest in the young man their son drowned saving in South Korean filmmaker Dong-seok Shin's feature debut.

"Sung-cheol attempts to cope by throwing himself into his work as an interior decorator while Mi-sook attempts to conceive by artificial insemination. When Sung-cheol runs into Ki-hyun, the boy their son rescued, he starts to take an interest in the withdrawn young man. Ki-hyun has dropped out of school and doesn’t seem to have a family of his own. Eventually Sung-cheol takes pity on the boy and decides to take him on as an apprentice. At first Mi-sook objects to the idea, but soon begins to form her own attachment to Ki-hyun. Before long the couple are treating Ki-hyun like their own kin, but there’s something not quite right…" (New Zealand International Film Festival)

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