A North Korean fisherman drifts into Southern waters when his boat’s engine fails. The National Intelligence Service proceeds to interrogate him on suspicion of being a spy. Two NIS officers with opposing views take on the case; one officer is convinced of the fisherman’s guilt and uses brutal interrogation techniques close to torture, while the other is sympathetic and treats him humanely. The NIS officers request that he write the entire story of how he got to the South several times, leaving nothing out; the fisherman just wants to go back to the North, but the suspicion doesn’t disappear. Can the fisherman go home? The Net is another of Kim Ki-duk’s films focusing on the topic of the North/South Korean divide, following his earlier works Wildlife Reservation Zone and The Coast Guard. In his own distinctive style, he confronts issues surrounding the manmade artificial border, the iron fences and the political partition. The Net is a heart-rending account of the reality of forcing people to choose either the North or the South.