女人因为自己的衣店需要童工，收养了男孩Jung并把他关在阁楼上。女人自己有个幻想变成女性的儿子，一直憎恶着自己的身体。尽管Jung同情和喜欢这个年幼的弟弟，但生活的重量让他难于呼吸。两人最终发展出一段爱恨纠缠的感情关系。而当成年Jung开始在停尸间工作，尸体成为了和他跳 舞的幻中现实...韩国导演全奎焕继“城市三部曲”后又一部探索反思现代社会冷漠与悲情的电影，入围第69届威尼斯电影节“威尼斯之夜”单元。 ◎QAF

Jung is a mortician at the morgue, who has to rely heavily on medicine for his severe tuberculosis and arthritis. Despite his illness, cleaning and dressing the dead is a noble and even beautiful work. His life over there is both a reality and a fantasy while the corpses are his models and friends for his paintings, his sole living pleasure. Why this morbid hobby? Jung was adopted by a horrible woman who used him as a slave for her dress shop. The natural son of the woman is younger than Jung and has a strange desire. He wants to transform his male body into a female one. Despite the love and hate relationship Jung has with his brother and burdened with the weight of life and the difficulties he has to deal with at his job, Jung endures the pain and prepares a last gift for his brother...

Né bossu, élevé dans un orphelinat, célibataire et employé dans une morgue, Jung n’a pas une existence des plus enviables. Pourtant, il trouve un sens à sa vie en mettant du cœur à la tâche, et en préparant méticuleusement les corps sans vie qu’il reçoit quotidiennement. Une routine sans encombre que vient perturber le retour de son frère d’adoption…

시공간을 알 수 없는 아름다우면서 모호한 기운에 사로잡힌 그로테스크한 분위기의 시체안치실, 사랑하는 할아버지를 하늘나라로 떠나 보내는 어린 꼬마 남자아이의 청아한 아리아가 울려 퍼지는 가운데 여러 시체가 누워있는 철 침대 사이로 시체를 닦고 예쁘게 치장하는 곱추가 보인다. 늘 그렇듯 구급대원들이 시체를 철 침대로 옮기고 아무 말 없이 나가면 이에 개의치 않고 꼽추는 시체의 피를 닦고 양동이에 핏물을 뺀다.