What if your trauma had a kill switch—and you weren't sure who flipped it?
Minyoung is a shy high school girl suffering from depression and bulimia. She is mercilessly bullied by her classmates, especially the sadistic Taeyong and his posse. One day, she is rescued by a sympathetic classmate who introduces her to transhumanism, a process where electrical shocks to the brain cause a person to "wake up to reality" through electrical baptism. Now, fully empowered, she plans revenge for the boys that have brutally bullied her. But when Taeyong turns up murdered, Minyoung must travel back in time using the Tesla coil to reveal the killer... even if the killer might be herself.
Practical Effects
Janky Tesla coil effects that somehow hit harder than CGI.
Direction
Do Naeri's unflinching gaze at teenage cruelty.
Acting
Hwang Jeong-in's terrifying stillness before the storm.
Director
Do Naeri
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Korean cinema's recent wave of female-directed genre films tackling school violence—Trans joins a lineage with The World of Us and Han Gong-ju.
The film's 'electrical baptism' deliberately echoes real transcranial stimulation experiments, blurring pseudoscience and desperate hope.
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