Michuko is the twelve-year-old only child of a principal father and a beautiful mother. She believes that she was bom at guillotine for no reason. After watching her parents having sex, she is raped by her father, and she becomes her father′s woman when her envious mother passes away. Absurdities such as incest, accidental murder, a suicide attempt, and group sex are part of Taeko′s por novel. The real story begins after this. Strange Circus is, in short, a story of vengeance. Writer Taeko seems to be a pervert, but when her family history is revealed through her young assistant, Yuji, it′s clearly a nightmare. The incest plot unfolds with violent images of a transgender with her breast cut-off, an electric saw instead of a guillotine, and dismemberments. Such insanity is mixed with the novel, dreams, illusions and reality. The entire movie is made up of twists, leading to the revelation of the trauma on the victim of sexual assault. Strange Circus returns to complete reality from fantasy when it is revealed that the assailant had been denying any wrongdoing, and has established and lived in the identity of the victim. The uncomfortable story was a device to disclose the family filth most effectively. (Kang So-won)