This film begins in Busan, South Korea with a young child by the name of "Eun-Joo" (Hwang Chae-Won) being kidnapped on her way home from school. Worried that the district police are more concerned with capturing the kidnapper than they are about rescuing his child, Eun-Joo's wealthy father (played by Song Young-Chang) uses his enormous influence to have an investigator named "Detective Kong Gil-yong" (Kim Yun-Seok) put in charge of the case. Unfortunately, this creates some dissension within the police department because Detective Kong is not a member of that particular district initially tasked with heading the investigation. Not only that, but Detective Kong's extremely delicate investigation also takes another twist when Eun-Joo's distraught mother (played by Lee Jung-Eun) consults a fortune teller by the name of "Kim Joong-san" (Yu Hae-Jin) who seems to have an ability to acquire intimate details of the kidnapping that might prove helpful. But the question on Detective Kong's mind is whether this fortune teller might actually hurt his investigation rather than helping it. Now, rather than reveal any more I will just say that, quite often, films that are "based on a true story" tend to be embellished to one extent or another. Sometimes beyond all reason. However, since some of the supposed facts to this story have only been recently released, there really isn't much I can say about this film's veracity. So, I'll leave it up to the viewers to make that determination for themselves. What I can say, however, is that I found this to be a very entertaining film which kept my attention from start-to-finish and for that reason I have rated it accordingly. Above average.
