The Call

Plots: Two people live in different times. Seo-Yeon lives in the present and Young-Sook lives in the past. One phone call connects the two and their lives are changed irrevocably. Seo-yeon, 28, takes the train to the South Korean countryside to visit her hospitalized mom. Having lost her smartphone on the train, she finds a phone in her mom’s house. She finds a hidden basement and Young-sook’s 20 year old/Nov.1999 diary when she, too, was 28. Her shaman stepmom believes her stepdaughter will become a serial killer if let out and is very cruel to her. The two 28 y.o. women start talking together on the same phone in the same house but separated by 20 years. Can Seo-yeon’s dad, who died then, be saved? Can history be changed? Should it? In 2019, Seo-yeon returns to her childhood home in the countryside after visiting her estranged mother, who has a brain tumor, in the hospital. While walking, Sung-ho, who owns a strawberry plantation, gives a ride to her in his truck. Seo-yeon realizes that she lost her cellphone in the train and connects a cordless telephone she finds in the house. Soon she receives several phone calls from a distressed woman and they start talking to each other. She learns that the other woman is Young-sook and they both are twenty-eight years old and have problems with their mothers. Further, Young-sook lives in the same house in 1999 and her stepmother is a shaman, who is cruel to her, keeping her locked up in the house and punishing her for mistakes. When Seo-yeon tells Young-sook that she blames her mother for the fire that killed her beloved father in 1999, Young-sook saves her father and the life of Seo-yeon changes for happiness with her family together. When Seo-yeon learns that the mother of Young-sook killed her during an exorcism, she informs Young-sook and she kills her mother instead. Soon Sung-ho and her father disappear and Seo-yeon learns that Young-sook is a psychopath and sociopath and has become a serial-killer. But what can she do to stop Young-sook living twenty years in the future.