Dr. Lee Taeho lives an ordinary life as a breadwinner and university researcher of water quality. One day, journalist and old university classmate Kang Cholsu pays him an unwelcome visit. The two used to be comrades in the student movement for democracy way back in the eighties, but that is all in the past. Cholsu wants to use Taeho’s paper for a critical report on the Four Major Rivers Restoration Project, but Taeho is hesitant about becoming a whistle-blower. As Taeho os...more

Dr. Lee Taeho lives an ordinary life as a breadwinner and university researcher of water quality. One day, journalist and old university classmate Kang Cholsu pays him an unwelcome visit. The two used to be comrades in the student movement for democracy way back in the eighties, but that is all in the past. Cholsu wants to use Taeho’s paper for a critical report on the Four Major Rivers Restoration Project, but Taeho is hesitant about becoming a whistle-blower. As Taeho oscillates between the inner voice of his conscience and the harsh demands of reality, his once peaceful life turns into a devastating nightmare, just like the water-bloom destroying the four rivers…less