A man works as a loan shark who threatens those who can’t make their payments. One day a woman appears on his doorstep claiming to be the mother who abandoned him as a baby. At first he rejects her, but then gradually accepts her into his life. When she is kidnapped, he must track down the culprit.

Basing his film on the artistic representation of Mary’s devotion to her son Jesus, the ever-controversial Kim Ki-duk won the 2012 Golden Lion (beating The Master) for this intense, provocative psychodrama. Definitely not for the faint of heart, it sent the fest spinning.