SYNOPSIS: Cha Young-goon works in a factory and is brought to a mental hospital after she plugs herself to an electric socket. In the hospital, she meets Park Il-sun, another patient, who thinks he can steal other people's souls and abilities.

Young-goon talks to fluorescent lamps and other inanimate objects, gives up her meals to another obese patient who eats her meals for her, licks batteries as her food, wears her grandmother's dentures whenever she panics, and dreams of killing all the doctors and nurses in the mental hospital.

Despite all these weird characteristics, Park Il-sun slowly falls for her and he follows her around to observe. This is when he realizes that Young-goon is slowly dying of starvation and Il-sun races against time to save her life.

REVIEWS: This is Rain's first feature film. When I first heard of this project, I wondered why Rain would choose a storyline that is not so popular. However, when I found out that this movie was nominated in the South Korea Grand Bell Awards and won in the Berlin International Film Festival, I decided to give it a try.

In the beginning, it was a bit weird for my taste. It would seem that the storyline focused too much on the idiosyncrasies of the different patients in the hospital. With scenes of these patients rolling on the floor, shouting names, making up stories, or simply creating havoc all over the place. But then, watching Rain and Lim Su-jeong give such convincing performances, I think Rain made the right choice. After all, he did win as the Best New Actor in 2007 Baeksang Art Awards. You forget that Rain and Su-jeong are high profile Korean Wave stars and instead you find yourself sharing in Il-sun and Young-goon's world.

This movie may not be fully appreciated by the mainstream crowd but it makes an important point. That love and happiness is for everyone whether you live in the real world or a make believe one.

posted by: HALLYU