Innocence Description:

At the funeral for Hwa-Ja’s husband, attendee Mayor Choo and his party begin to vomit and collapse after drinking makgeolli. Mayor Choo survives, but some in his party die. Evidence seem to indicate Hwa-Ja as the culprit who poisoned the drink, but Hwa-Ja has Alzheimer’s disease. Meanwhile, Hwa-Ja’s daughter Jung-In works as a lawyer at a big law firm in Seoul. In her past, she suffered from physical violence from her father and left her hometown. She is a now a successful lawyer. Jung-In then sees her mother Hwa-Ja on the TV news. She returns to her hometown. When she gets there, her mother Hwa-Ja does not recognize her or her younger autistic brother Jung-Soo. Jung-In takes up her mother’s case. She senses the truth is buried in her mother’s case and she is sure her mother is innocent.