An older woman goes out looking for her granddaughter Manda, who hasn’t come home yet, and finds her abandoned next to the local railroad. While taking care of her granddaughter, who has been raped, she asks the police for help. The police, however, threaten her family after realizing that the attacker was a politician’s trouble-making son. She starts following him every day, looking for a chance to get revenge. When a society’s judicial system fails to function due to an imbalance of wealth and power, punishment for a crime becomes a matter of personal revenge. Fighting everyone becomes the only way to survive. This is the kind of society in which ajji takes place. It’s rather impossible to hope to bring justice to the politician’s son, who rapes the girl and commits other bizarre crimes. With the help of a woman in a brothel and the techniques she learned from the butcher, the grandmother limps her way toward revenge. This is screenwriter Makhija’s debut film, as his first was censored and never made it to audiences. (KIM Young-woo)