A Child of Silent

Directed by Lee Hyeok-jong (이혁종)

Written by Lee Hyeok-jong (이혁종)

109min | Release date in South Korea: 2025/04/09

Synopsis
2025, a shocking true story we must never forget!

Jeong-min, who lives alone in an old villa after a failed business and divorce, is extremely annoyed by the noise coming from next door. Then one day, he discovers a girl peeking out of the window next door and is startled. There was a child in that house...

Even though she spends all day alone in an empty house with a chain tied around her waist, and even though her mother Da-yeong scolds her and beats her so much that she gets bruises, 6-year-old Soo-ah doesn’t cry. But this time, her mother doesn’t come home at night. She waits and waits, but her mother doesn’t come, and she’s getting hungrier. Soo-ah loves her mom too…

Soon-im, who has been paying child support to her ex-daughter-in-law Da-yeong on behalf of her son, goes to visit her with a gift on Soo-ah’s birthday and feels ominous when she hears from her neighbor, Jeong-min, that Da-yeong hasn’t come home for two weeks. With Jeong-min's help, she breaks open the front door and finds Soo-ah, who is on the verge of starving to death, and barely manages to save her, but Da-yeong reports her instead. Soon-im, who has no choice but to give up her granddaughter again, makes a big decision and goes to see Jeong-min... Please, help me!

Soon-im has no choice but to helplessly give Soo-ah back to Da-yeong, who has come to the hospital with the police. Soon-im, who makes her last decision to save her only granddaughter, kidnaps Da-yeong with Jeong-min's help, and Soon-im, who is dragging Da-yeong, who is tied up in chains, climbs the mountain with difficulty and enters the dark cave together.