A North Korean diplomat defects to the South during the Cold War, but the South Koreans have their suspicions as to whether he is an actual defector or a double agent.
Acting
Han Suk-kyu's face does three betrayals at once.
Direction
Kim Hyeon-jeong makes bureaucracy feel genuinely lethal.
Director
Kim Hyeon-jeong
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was one of the first South Korean films to explicitly depict North Korean spies as complex protagonists rather than cartoon villains, released during the Sunshine Policy era of tentative détente.
The film's murky ending deliberately mirrors real-life spy scandals where even declassified documents couldn't confirm who was truly loyal — the ambiguity is the point.
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