Come, Come, Come Upward
(Aje Aje Bara Aje)

The daily life of schoolgirl Sun-Nyo is immensely difficult, caught between a father who has retreated into a monastic life and a bitter, authoritarian mother. Expelled from school, she enters a Buddhist convent to become a nun. But her relationship with the mother superior and the religious community also become fraught with conflict. The arrival of Hyon-U, a drunkard tired of life, unsettles the new meaning that she wanted to give her life…