With a Girl of Black Soil

The film is set in a mining town in South Korea. The town is in the Kangwon region. At the centre of the account is a girl of nine. Her name is Yeong-lim. At home are her older brother Dong-gu and their father. Dong-gu has an intellectual disability. Their father used to work in the mine. But he lost the job to a lung disease. Now he sits at home and drinks. The house is under a demolition order as well. The neighbours are moving away one by one. Yeong-lim tries to keep the family going. She finds food and looks for a school for her brother. She thinks about her father’s illness too. Yoo Yeon-mi and Hyeon-woo Park take the leads in Jeon Soo-il’s South Korean and French coproduction of 2007.