Synopsis : The story is set against the backdrop of Korea’s turbulent political times, four years after the assasination of President Park Chung-hee that, on one hand, ended his 16-year long dictatorship (1983), but on the other, set another kind of political turbulences to motion. The film kicks off in Washington DC, with the first assassination attempt at the new (fictive) Korean president during his official state visit, which ignites the rivalry between the leader of the Korean Central Intelligence Agency’s Foreign Unit Park Pyong-ho (Lee Jung-jae) and the domestic unit chief Kim Jung-do (Jung Woo-sung).More...