Female War: A Nasty Deal

Painter Ha-rim loses his sight after a cruel accident, leaving his wife Sun-yeong to search for a donor. Her quest takes an unexpected turn when she meets Dae-geun, a terminal patient with a cornea he can spare. Desperate to restore Ha-rim's vision, Sun-yeong agrees to a dangerous arrangement that could alter both families forever. The bargain forces them to weigh love against risk, secrecy against honesty, and the boundaries of what one is willing to trade for sight. The film keeps the focus on intimate moments and moral tension rather than loud melodrama, presenting a tense meditation on what people sacrifice for the people they love. The urban setting quietly frames the moral tension.

Directed by No Zin-soo and brought to life by writers Park In-kwon and Kim Pil-jin, the film arrived in 2015 as a stark, character driven drama about moral choice and the price of care, and the human cost behind care and restrained performances.

Critics described the film as a tight, morally uneasy drama that foregrounds ethical ambiguity over flashy suspense. It examines how love can push people into compromised bargains and how vulnerability in illness exposes power imbalances within intimate relationships. Viewers are invited to weigh loyalty against self preservation.

Box office numbers for this title are not publicly disclosed, and it did not make a notable splash internationally. It largely circulated through festival circuits and limited release, appealing mostly to arthouse audiences and niche drama fans in select markets.

Despite its provocative premise the film did not appear to garner major awards or nominations in mainstream circuits. There might be regional or festival notices, but there is no record of a notable award win that year.