{Cannes IFF 2016, Toronto IFF 2016}

During the Japanese occupation, young Sookee is employed as a handmaiden by the mysterious heiress Hideko, who lives in the remote countryside, cut off from the world. But Sookee has a secret mission she cannot reveal to anyone – to help an aristocrat-impersonating conman to seduce the princess and procure her fortune. The plan goes swimmingly – until certain unexpected feelings begin to break through the surface... Based on Sarah Waters’s novel The Fingersmith (previously adapted into a three-part TV miniseries), star South Korean director Park Chan-Wook’s masterful, surprising cinematic adaptation transposes the story to a different place and time. A bold, spellbinding tale of love and betrayal full of unexpected twists.