The country’s most revered shamans rush to Mr. Kang’s house to cure his eldest son’s life-threatening illness. Among them, Okhwa, who has extraordinary spiritual powers, discovers a gourd buried in the village. She explains that the soul trapped in the vessel—another villager who had not properly been laid to rest—has somehow been released and that spirit is the very threat that is now endangering the boy’s life. The Hut won I.S.D.A.P. at the Venice Film Festival in 1981.