Living a torturous life of poverty and barely able to survive, Hwa-yeon (CHO) decides to offer herself as one of the king’s concubines. Once inside the royal palace, two men are immediately seized by the woman -- the Grand Prince Seong-won (KIM Dong-wook), a megalomaniacal ruler drunk with power and lust, and Kwon-yoo (KIM Min-jun), who has everything to lose if his desire for Hwa-yeon is exposed. As political intrigue begins to infiltrate this love triangle, the palace is...more

Living a torturous life of poverty and barely able to survive, Hwa-yeon (CHO) decides to offer herself as one of the king’s concubines. Once inside the royal palace, two men are immediately seized by the woman -- the Grand Prince Seong-won (KIM Dong-wook), a megalomaniacal ruler drunk with power and lust, and Kwon-yoo (KIM Min-jun), who has everything to lose if his desire for Hwa-yeon is exposed. As political intrigue begins to infiltrate this love triangle, the palace is revealed as a hell-like space of passion and obsession from which any of these characters will be lucky to emerge from still alive.

KIM Dae-seung began his film career as a protégé of legendary Korean director IM Kwon-taek, assisting on films such as <Seopyeonje> (1993) and <The Taebaek Mountains> (1994). His features, including <Bungee Jumping of Their Own> (2000) and <Blood Rain> (2004), have screened at international film festivals such as Tokyo, Seattle, Brisbane and Montreal’s Fantasia.less