Pressure steadily mounts as Yu-jin’s world, and mind, unravels. He doesn’t help his case by admitting that he lies often. When a woman’s body washes up nearby, one can’t help but suspect Yu-jin. Yu-jin even confesses to following young women around at night, noting that frightening them is an addiction that he must feed. After his brother and father died 16 years ago, she adopted Hae-jin and has favored him over Yu-jin since. She made him stop swimming competitively-the only thing he really loved-because she claimed to fear he’d have a seizure in the water, and she nags him incessantly, always insisting she know his whereabouts. Yu-jin’s mom may not have had his best interests at heart. Yu-jin narrates, telling a compelling, disturbing tale as he tries to piece together the events that might have led to his mother’s death. Could he have killed his own mother? It sure seems that way, even if he can’t remember doing it, and the fact that he hasn’t been taking his anti-seizure medication doesn’t help. He explores the house, hoping for more clues as to what happened, and is surprised to find his late father’s straight razor covered in blood in his room. He follows the trail of gore to find his mother lying at the bottom of the stairs with her throat cut. One morning, he wakes covered in blood, “clots of the stuff” hanging off his clothes. Twenty-five-year-old Yu-jin lives in a sparkling modern apartment with his mother, has an adopted brother with whom he’s close, and he’s waiting to hear if he’s been accepted into law school. A young man desperately tries to fill in gaps in his memory when he realizes he may have brutally murdered his own mother.
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