Copenhagen, Denmark, 1945. Newly liberated from the Nazi German occupation. Marie, a housekeeper and governess about to marry a wealthy businessman, harbors a past she wants no one to discover. When a friend from her hometown who knows Marie’s secret reappears, her anxiety mounts. Fearing that her entire life could fall apart, Marie desperately tries to keep her past hidden. In the immediate aftermath of liberation, Denmark, like other European countries, saw Nazi collaborators swiftly punished by liberating forces and resistance groups. Women who had formed intimate relationships with German soldiers were subjected to brutal physical violence. Woman Unknown relentlessly examines the mechanisms of male-dominated collective violence and social stigma through the violence inflicted on women’s bodies. By questioning the purpose behind such disproportionate punishment and near-mad collective violence, the film lays bare a shameful chapter in postwar history. The film is directed by May El-Toukhy (Queen of Hearts). (LEE Juhyun)