It made its world premiere at the 20th Busan International Film Festival in 2015 and won the DGK Award . It was also invited to the 15th edition of New York Asian Film Festival in 2016 to be screened as the North American premiere . Wan-joo ( Park Jong-hwan ) , enraged at being replaced by another actor , quits theatre school and now works as a role play in " real-life " . One day , a woman asks him to be a witness for her son 's murder case . Desperate for money for his mother 's surgery , he agrees . When he realizes his false testimony implicates an innocent young man as the murderer , and discovers the murdered victim is an orphan and the woman who hired him is n't who she claims to be , he decides to search for the truth
20th Busan International Film Festival
20th Busan International Film Festival
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