I could go to the police station and confess.

I could find a priest and confess.

I ate a person. Is that sin?

ROMEO & JULIET meets THE VEGETARIAN in the Korean cult classic phenomenon that sold half a million copies

When writer Dam discovers her boyfriend, Gu, murdered on the street, she cradles his corpse to her heart and tells him one last story. A string of monologues and meditations looping between this realm and the next blossoms into the tale of two twin flames starved of luck until death do them part - or part by part...

At the end, Dam confesses: she has been slowly eating the dead man cradled in her arms, who she has lovingly washed, embalmed, and chosen to bury in herself - where he will now live - forever...

At once romantic and horrific, HUNGER is a psychologically and philosophically thrilling love story cutting to the very heart of our barbaric wrestle with death.