



Y cuts her hair and drops out of university and J leaves home and they spend the remainder of their relationship living in hotels, having sex every night, carving tattoos onto their inner thighs, forgoing work and rejecting society. Y's brother discovers the affair and sets fire to J's house. She assumes the dominant role in the relationship and they ultimately take turns beating each other. When J visits his wife in Paris, his relationship with his wife deteriorates when he begs her to beat him she refuses and the film reveals that his sexual desires have been a strain on their marriage for years.Īfter an unusually intense beating, Y becomes angry and J offers to let her beat him. At first, Y only goes along with it to make J happy, telling Woori that she desires whatever he does, but she eventually takes a liking to being beaten. In their next tryst, he confides in her his interest in sadomasochism and she allows him to beat her on her buttocks before they have sex again.Īs time goes on, they engage in regular trysts where he beats her with increasing intensity, using a wide variety of implements. The two have sex as soon as they enter the motel and proceed to have anal and oral sex. After talking to him on the phone, she is aroused by the sound of his voice and arranges to meet him at a love hotel so she can have her first sexual encounter on her own terms instead of losing her virginity to rape like her two sisters did. Y is an 18 year-old highschool senior whose friend Woori has struck up a correspondence with J, a 38 year-old sculptor.
