Grotesque

Teacher Yuko stands in front of the class and
announces she is going to resign. She explains that
Student A and Student B in her class killed her 3 year
old daughter and now in revenge she has infected the
milk they just drank with HIV infected blood. From the
disgusted response of the two boys, it is obvious who
the killers are.
Because her husband was ill with HIV, Yuko had
brought her daughter to school to play in an empty
classroom while she taught in another room. One day,
the child was gone and her body turned up floating in
the swimming pool. A student admits to killing the child
and when she shows...

Yun-hee, a South Korean writer, is under pressure by her editor to produce something of interest for her next book. She hasn’t had a book published in three years and is all too cognizant of this fact. Things look up when her old friend Seo-yeon calls from Vietnam. Seo-Yeon informs Yun-hee about a local Vietnamese folklore centered around a girl named “Muoi” and her haunted portrait. It just so happens that in Yun-hee’s prior novel, she wrote a semi-autobiographical tale concerning her friends titled “Secrets & Lies”. In the book Seo-Yeon was portrayed in the most horrible manner,...