Law of Lines

My first multi-level-marketing thriller or more existential agony from the Land of the Morning Calm?
Yes.

Se-oh returns to find her house in flames, her father dead inside - perhaps a suicide to escape his mounting debts. Ki-jeong gets a call that her estranged sister has been pulled from the river, dead of an apparent suicide. Slowly these two stories begin to converge but not in traditional Western thriller fashion, unveiling sinister cabals, lurking evil and grand designs.

It is more interested in illuminating how powerless we can be in the face of horrible events. How the world takes advantage of the naivety and vulnerability of youth. That these lives of grey shadows are only sharpened to a focus through tragedies that surface feelings of guilt, loss and anger. That under those heavy burdens does one struggle to move forward.

Maybe it's just I've been on a huge Korean works in translation jag as of late that colors my perception but it just feels like Korean works are tuned a little differently. That life is hard and there are no pretty answers to its endless struggle.