Written and co-directed by woman filmmaker Shin A-ga, this tells the compelling tale of Hyunsoon, a milk-delivery woman who masks her own vulnerability behind bull-in-a-china-shop aggression. She’s torn between her comatose mother, her alienated siblings and her own secretive religious beliefs; her ‘issues’ come to a head when her brother and sister decide they can no longer afford their mother’s hospital bills. Hyunsoon is outraged and convinced that their mother may yet revive … The core of this moral maze of a film is an extraordinary central performance from Whang Jungmin (Save the Green Planet), as punchy as a heavyweight title bout.

Tony Rayns