A young and lonely drifter spends his nights in different empty family holiday homes. One day, he mistakes a quiet mansion for an empty one, and meets a young woman, a housewife looking to run away from her abusive husband, and in urgent need of his intervention.

Though still subversive, South Korea’s enfant terrible Kim Ki-duk eschews the explicit and exploitative, often unrelentingly cruel violence of his more sinister films in this romantic drama—an allegorical love story sentimental and quiet, gentle and tender.