FUNDAMENTALS OF CINEMA: NEW CLASSICS

In October of 1994, three student filmmakers disappeared in the woods near Burkittsville, Maryland, while shooting a documentary... A year later their footage was found. What actually happened to Heather Donahue, Michael Williams, and Joshua Leonard deep in the Maryland woods has become the stuff of legend. What they captured on film in their final days has transformed their sudden disappearance into one of America's most suggestive nightmares... But the film told only part of the story. In an exclusive arrangement with the filmmakers' families, noted journalist D. A. Stern and private investigator Buck Buchanan have unsealed the official police reports to compile the first fully detailed and illustrated investigative report on one of the most disturbing cases in Maryland history...

Craig Schwartz, a charismatic puppeteer, is trying to get by but it seems that nobody in New York is interested in his art. His ten-year-old marriage with Lotte, a workaholic pet shop employee – who works overtime – is a dead end. No money, no passion and no way out; Craig is having the worst time of his life.

One day in 1988, an man named Dae-su Oh, who lives with his wife and young daughter, is kidnapped and later wakes up to find himself in a private makeshift prison. He makes numerous attempts to escape and to commit suicide, but fails. All the while, he asks himself what made a man hate him so much as to imprison him without any reason.While watching the news one day, he is shocked to hear that his wife has been brutally murdered.At that very moment, he swears to take revenge on the man who destroyed his life. Fifteen years later, Dae-su is released with a wallet filled with money and a mobile phone. An unknown man calls Dae-su and asks him to figure out why he was imprisoned...