A mother lives quietly with her twenty-eight-year-old son, Do-joon, providing herbs and acupuncture to neighbors. One day, a girl is brutally murdered, and Do-joon is charged with the killing. Now, it’s his mother’s call whether to prove him innocent or to leave him imprisoned. There are two murderers in [Mother]: One is Do-joon who commit killing by mistake, and the other one is his mother who did murder to save her son. How did this mother and son become murderers? In this respect, it is of much importance to draw particular attention to a scene in which the mother, in defiance of police warnings, is on her way to see a guy with Down Syndrome. She asks him, “Don’t you have a mom?” In the film, death is inextricably linked to the mother. The mother is the guardian, and her absence soon approaches as death. The mother’s typological peculiarity deeply rooted in Korean society is startling. (LEE Sang-yong)