Bleak Night

When a student dies, his father starts investigating how and why it happened. One of three friends is the perpetrator, another is the victim, while the third is enraged at how their friendship was shattered. Then it is discovered that the dead student was actually the perpetrator and not the victim. How could this be?

Bleak Night (also known as Boys into the Night) begins as a mystery but provides an in-depth look into the growing process of children who have yet to mature and the tragic reality that they are unable to perceive the pain of others. In a time when friendship and wounds reside too close together, they resort to violence as they demand understanding of each other. At the base of it all lie the ruins created by the Korean education system. It is a time when growing up in Korean society means the perpetrator, the victim, and the mediator are scarred, all in the name of growing up. –Pusan International Film Festival