La capacité de survie

Survival AbilityA Korean woman struggling with existential doubts in Today's Korea, an ultraliberal society that leaves many people in precarious situations. Yeong-jin, a young forty-something, teaches in a private Protestant high school in Seoul. She faces social violence from everywhere. Non-permanent, she feels obliged, in order to keep her position, to accept everything her employer asks of her. Overwhelmed with work - she also takes care of her sister's children during her holidays - she suffers from have no recognition from his superiors. Her boyfriend works in a association to help migrant workers who are exploited by Korean farmers in conditions bordering on slavery. His mother continues to do housework despite being of retirement age. And Yeong-jin has just undergone a hysterectomy… The violence of liberal society affects her more and more and leads him to ask himself questions about his relationship to work, about his relationship with his parents and the future of his relationship. Superb portrait of a woman in revolt, is a very personal, political and social reflection, on the state of a country and the state of a woman.