Shocking viewers at the Venice Film Festival, The Isle is the haunting yet gruesome masterpiece by controversial director Kim Ki-duk. In a remote fishing ground where people go to forget their deepest problems, a mysteriously silent woman acts as groundkeeper, supplier of food and beverage, and sometimes offers her own body to the lonely fishermen. One day, an ex-cop who is on the run for the murder of his lover arrives at the isle looking for a place to hide. Soon the odd couple starts to develop an unusually intimate relationship.