Way Back Home (2013 film)
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| Directed by | Bang Eun-jin |
| Produced by | Im Sang-jin Jang Won-seok Kang Myeong-chan Seo Young-hee |
| Written by | Yoon Jin-ho |
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Jeon Do-yeon Go Soo |
| Music by | Kim Jun-seong |
| Cinematography | Lee Mo-gae |
| Edited by | Kim Sun-min |
| Distributed by | CJ Entertainment |
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107 minutes |
| Country | South Korea |
| Language | Korean |
| Box office | $12.8 million |
Way Back Home (Hangul: 집으로 가는 길; RR: Jibeuro Ganeun Gil) is a 2013 South Korean film starring Jeon Do-yeon and Go Soo, and directed by Bang Eun-jin. It is based on the true story of an ordinary Korean housewife who was imprisoned in Martinique for two years after being wrongfully accused of drug smuggling at a Paris airport.
This is the first time a Korean film was shot in the Caribbean, as well as the first to feature actual guards and prisoners as supporting characters. Filming took place over three weeks at a women's prison in Martinique.
Jeong-yeon (Jeon Do-yeon) and Jong-bae (Go Soo) are a happily married couple with a young daughter; they pour their savings into an auto repair shop only to have the rug pulled out from underneath them when a friend of Jong-bae's commits suicide after he is unable to pay his loans. Since Jong-bae acted as his friend's guarantor, the debt now falls onto them. With Jong-bae gradually growing despondent following their financial turmoil, Jeong-yeon makes the hard decision to do a job for a seedy acquaintance. She agrees to deliver diamonds from Paris to Seoul, which she thought would be legal. Jeong-yeon arrives in France, but as soon as she sets foot in Orly Airport she is arrested and police discover more than 30 kilograms (66 pounds) of cocaine in her bag. Being thrown in a French jail is only the beginning of her troubles as legal wranglings and an indifferent Korean embassy in France soon see her shipped off to a penitentiary on the far-flung island of Martinique, a French territory in the Caribbean, where she is jailed for two years without being tried in court. Back in Korea, her husband does his best to get through to the diplomats and secure her passage home.
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