An affluent housewife, obsessed with cleanliness, who one day chooses to leave her husband along with her bleakly repetitive life. The question is: should she take her two daughters with her or leave them behind? Based on a real-life incident involving a Korean mother and her children, 'The Housewife' explores the bleak world of Korean housewives, suffering from depression, who struggle to find purpose in their cripplingly mundane lives.
Directed byJayil Pak
Written byJayil Pak
CountrySouth Korea
Runtime25 min
On screen
Ji-won Ye