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“A week before the national bankruptcy.”

South Korea has one week left before it goes under sovereign default, and the Bank of Korea is filling up with people who already know it. Han Si-hyun (Kim Hye-soo), who leads the monetary policy team, is pulled onto a crisis team and handed the numbers nobody wants read aloud. Choi Kook-hee's film is the first Korean feature to take the IMF financial crisis as its subject, and Han has seven days to find a way out of it.