Saha

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In a country called Town, a doctor named Su is found dead in an abandoned car. The police look in the only direction they ever look: the Saha Estates, a crumbling housing project where the underclass lives under the control of a secretive organization. The residents of Saha are poor, undocumented, and disposable — the people that Town's gleaming prosperity was built on and prefers to forget. Cho Nam-Joo, whose Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 became a global phenomenon, turns her precise, clinical gaze on class and inequality. The dystopian setting is barely speculative — a slight exaggeration of systems already in place, rendered with the flat, documentary tone that makes Cho's work so devastating. A dystopian fable about the neighborhood every city has — the one where the rules don't apply because the people who live there don't count.