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?
I am your mother. You can never run from me.
Even in death, I will be with you, Soo Hyun.
We started as one, and we will end as one.
Soo-Hyun.
Is that you?
Can you feel my heart beating?
That's because you and I are one.
No matter how much you try to forget me.
I couldn't live without you.
And now I can't truly die without you.
Do you see what I've become?
Look at me!
Open the door.
Don't cry, Little One.
Here, I want you to have this.
What is it, Umma?
It's my old music box, of course.
If you play it when you're sad, it will always make you happy again.
Can you feel my heart beating?
Soo-Hyun.
You're not the only disobedient girl in this house.
I know why you won't put me to rest.
You need me, she needs us.
We can be a good mother together.
You call that a burial?
I'll show you a burial!
Let me in, Soo-Hyun!
Your daughter shows you no respect.
She needs a real mother.
Let me be her mother.
I carried you in my womb.
I felt every ounce of pain as you tore out of my body.
But nothing compares to the pain of dying alone.
It doesn't scare me anymore.
Show yourself.
Umma, why are you so sad?
Do you remember when you gave me this?
You said it would make me happy whenever I played it.
Let me play it for you now.
You only ever cared about your own happiness.
You have no idea how much I suffered.
You're wrong, Umma.
I know what you went through.
You were respected in Korea.
A talented dressmaker.
You were happy.
You were expected to be a good wife.
So you gave it all up,
and followed your husband to a foreign land.
But you couldn't speak the language.
You couldn't ask for help.
I know it wasn't easy.
Soo-Hyun.
I prayed every day that I could see you,
that we could be together again.
But you never came.
I'm here now.
I understand life was cruel to you.
But you were cruel to me.
I had to leave.
And now you have to do the same.
I am your mother.
I will always be part of you.
We can't be together like this.
I can't stay.
Soo-Hyun.
Where are you going?
Soo-Hyun. Don't leave me.
Please!
I will give you your jesa,
so you can find the peace you never had in life.
Now it's time for you to go.
I am done taking on your pain.