The Housewife

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.