A young woman who believes she's a cyborg hears voices and harms herself while at work making radios. She's hospitalised in a mental institution where she eats nothing and talks to inanimate objects. She's Young-goon, granddaughter of a woman who thought she was a mouse (and whose dentures Young-goon wears) and a mother who's a butcher without much social grace. Young-goon comes to the attention of Il-sun, a ping-pong playing patient at the institution who makes it his goal to get her to eat.
The above is the synopsis we were given as we went into the cinema. It hints that this is an unusual film but it doesn't, and possibly can't, capture the full bizarre crazyness of it. It is set in a memtal institution I suppose but at times it does feel like you're laughing at mental illness and you ask yourself if that is right. But this is a moving film exploring human frailty as well as being, at times, very funny.
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