In Her Place

An affluent couple from Seoul arrives at a desolate farm in the South Korean countryside, where a pregnant teenager and her mother have agreed to let them adopt the girl's unborn child. The wife is to stay at the farm until the child is born, and a quiet unease begins to percolate as the three unnamed women fall into a daily routine. Impossibly shy and reclusive, the teen (Ahn Ji-hye) spends most of her time alone in her bedroom. Both her mother (Kil Hae-yeon) and the wife (Yoon Da-kyung) are determined to make the arrangement work, but things become complicated when the baby's father surfaces and the girl's odd behaviour comes into question. With the discipline and maturity of a veteran director, Albert Shin patiently explores the rhythms and tensions born of the three women's disparate desires.