Memory Of Murder

Rural South Korea, 1986.

A small town is rocked by a series of serial killings in which women are left strangled and with their panties placed over their heads.

The investigating detective Park is getting nowhere in his investigation. He is joined by Suh, a detective from Seoul, who disapproves of Park and his partner Jo’s methods of beating and even torturing suspects to get confessions.

They believe they have found a suspect in the intellectually handicapped Kwang-ho and Park forces a confession out of him, but Suh proves that Kwang-ho could not have done it, much to the department’s embarrassment. Meanwhile the killings continue.

They find further suspects, only to end up being left at a point of inconclusive frustration every time.