About This Film
“Money makes the world go round”, sung Liza Minelli in “Cabaret” and “A Dream of Fortune“ seems to be a film that has truly caught the meaning of the phrase, as everything in the movie revolve around money.
Synopsis
Song Chang-soo lives in a neighborhood of welfare houses, that were built by the government in order to deal with the housing issue in Seoul. However, he still has to pay a monthly mortgage fee and his meager middle-school teacher wage is not enough, resulting in him owing a number of payments and facing the danger of eviction. The lack of money also take a toll to his wife, Mrs. Son, who has to deal with everyday expenses and his drinking, for which he loans money to indulge in. Furthermore, their son Yeong-joon, cannot even afford bus fare has to walk 3km everyday to get to school. Their issues have forced Mrs. Son to be obsessed with money, and the presence of various shady figures that are close to the family does not help. A neighbor convinces Mrs. Son to receive a piglet, which she will sell after a year of it growing up and then return her the price of the piglet. In-dal, a friend of Song's, brings over Mr. Charlie Hong, a rather shady US immigrant who supposedly deals with medicine overseas, and manages to seduce both husband and wife into joining his smuggling business, for which the couple resorts in taking a loan to finance. When the real Charlie is revealed, tragedy hits the family in ways they did not even imagine.
