The Ugly
"The barefaced truth comes out."
One day while overseeing a documentary crew filming his blind father at work, Im Dong-hwan gets a phone call that his missing mother’s remains have been found after forty years. Determined to find the truth of her disappearance, Dong-hwan embarks on a twisted odyssey through his family’s traumatic past, uncovering dark secrets along the way.
Directed by Yeon Sang-ho
Written by Yeon Sang-ho
Produced by: Yoomin Hailey Yang, Jo Eun-hye, Ahn So-hee
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