South Korea, 1998: While the country moves closer towards democracy, Young-oak remains at odds with his female-connotated name while attending a boy's school where the air is thick with testosterone. The young man is struggling to fit in and find a new name among corrupt teachers and the teenagers' violent power games, which are as subtle as they are extreme. Behind his mother Jeong-sun's seemingly unflappable exterior, a past long repressed is reemerging, which she is reluctant to face. Yet confrontation is unavoidable – and it leads back to the national tragedy surrounding the Jeju Uprising of April 3rd, 1948.
Yeom Hye-ran
Choi Jeong-sun
Shin Woo-bin
Lee Young-ok (young)
Choi Jun-woo
Ko Min-su (young)
Park Ji-bin
Kyung-tae
Kim Gyu-ri
Hee-ra
Jung In-woo
Kang So-young (young)
Yu Jun-sang
Lee Young-ok
Oh Ji-ho
Ko Min-su
Oh Yoon-ah
Kang So-young
Jeon Seung-hoon
Jo Jung-hwan
Heo Dong-won
Hwang Cheol-gwang
Kim Dong-young
Platoon leader
Lee So-i
Choi Jeong-sun (youth)
Kim Seol-jin
Jeju people
Kim Min-jae
Jeju people
