In 2011, Eunju Oh opens her door to greet a stranger: a young Korean American woman holding a familiar-looking knife - a knife Eunju hasn't seen in more than thirty years, and that connects her to a place she'd desperately hoped to leave behind forever. In South Korea in the 1980s, homeless young Eunju and her mother are sent to live within the walls of a state-sanctioned reformatory centre. Eunju and the other labourers are all forced down a path of survival, the repercussions of which will echo for decades to come.
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