In mid-1960s known as the period in which "literary cinema" became thriving, Lee who was in desperate search of new cinematic language became interested in cinematic re-interpretation of pre-existed fiction. Based on a short story by Nah Do-hyang, this is the first series of Lee′s literary cinema collection. Wanderer Bang-won arrives at a town where he is attracted by a girl at an exorcist ritual. Later, out of infatuation he volunteers to pay back the debt of his secret love by working as a lifetime slave while his master is more vigilant for getting his girl. While most of Korean films that are based on the resistance literary works set in the period of Japanese occupation are concerned with realism and Korean aesthetic form, with this particular film he experimented the most westernized and modernistic narrative approach and phantasmal cinematic styles. Following Bang-won′s obsessive desire for a girl whose presence is more like a ghost and of incantation, the film unveils the characters who fall self-destructive and violent under their inevitable circumstances through the most exquisite yet striking picture frame. (Cho Young-jung)