Its rare that a movie combines extreme violence visual panache and gut wrenching emotion but lady vengeance is just such a movie geum ja lee the lovely yeong ae lee joint security area is sent to prison at the age of 19 for kidnapping and murdering a 5 year old boy she becomes a model prisoner apparently converting to christianity and helping care for ill prisoners but in fact shes slowly making connections that will allow her to wreak revenge on the man responsible for her imp