Umma

Umma.

Open the door.

Umma!

I'm sorry.

I'll never run away again, I promise.

I... I love you, Umma.

Then why can't you see how much you hurt me, Soo-Hyun?

Soo-Hyun.

Don't you recognize your uncle?

Uncle?

I flew halfway across the world to come see you.

Aren't you going to offer me a cup of coffee?

Turn the car off.

Please.

And your telephone.

My cell phone? Why?

I can't be near electricity.

What?

Where is your husband?

I don't have a husband.

Why not?

I didn't think I needed one.

Hey.

Is this your daughter?

I drove past her on the way here.

You spoke to her?

Tried to.

But she didn't understand a lick of Korean. Why not?

Because she's American.

Bullshit.

You can never hide who you are.

What happens when you get near it?

The electricity.

How long have you lived like this?

Ever since my daughter was born.

Please, tell me why you're here.

Your mother is dead.

She died a few months ago.

I would have come sooner,

but finding you was nearly impossible.

You have no cell phone, no e-mail, no Kakao.

Worst of all,

you got rid of your Korean name.

Your mother and father gave you that name.

It was the name

your mother cried out right before she died.

With her dying breath,

she reached out for you.

Like you were right there next to her.

Soo-Hyun, is that you?

That's how she called out for you.

But...

you weren't there, were you?

The doctors said it was a heart attack.

But I know it was your fault that she died.

What kind of daughter abandons her own mother?

She needed you, but you left her.

Just like your useless father left her.

And what about me?

Who was there to take care of me?

It's the child who has obligations to her parents,

both in life, and forever afterward.

But you deny her that.

And now she's trapped in this world like a gwishin.

Her anger will grow as long as she remains in this box.

That's why you must...

No.

Each day, her pain will turn to poison, and seep into you.

Your mother always gets what she wants.

You know what she's capable of.

Soo-Hyun?

Is that you?

Soo-Hyun.

I am your mother. You can never run from me.