A mysterious virus spreads out. Anyone infected feels the emotion of love, and the emotion amplifies until it kills the person in love. The pessimist Taek-seon, who likes nothing in life, is infected, and the researcher Gyun reaches her out to test her the medicine that he's developing. Soon Gyun finds out Taek-seon has special antibody, but Taek-seon slowly feels love to Gyun. Is this a real love or just a virus?
Acting
Bae Doona's deadpan slowly cracking open—devastating
Writing
The antibody twist reframes every glance between them
Director
Kang Yi-kwan
Bae Doona
Ok Taek-seon
Kim Yun-seok
Lee Gyun
Chang Ki-ha
Kim Yeon-woo
Son Suk-ku
Nam Su-pil
Moon Sung-keun
Professor Seong
Kim Hie-won
Director of Research Institute
Oh Hyun-kyung
Young-hee
Min Jin-woong
Jeong-hun
Yeom Hye-ran
Ms. Yeom
Yoo Soon-woong
Na Jeong-bae
Lee Kyung-jin
Taek-seon's Mother
Kim Ye-won
Ji-seon
Park Hee-von
Yi-ju
Kwak Min-ho
Manager Kim
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on a novel by Honore de Balzac—yes, really, the 19th-century French guy. Kang Yi-kwan modernized 'The Wild Ass's Skin' into a viral pandemic romance.
Released when COVID anxieties still lingered, the film deliberately sidesteps medical thriller tropes to ask: what if contagion brought connection instead of isolation?
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