The Truth Beneath

The Truth Beneath follows Yeon-hong, the wife of a politician campaigning for a seat in the National Assembly. On the first day of the campaign, their teenage daughter Min-jin disappears. Rather than involve the police and risk damaging his candidacy, her husband hesitates, leaving Yeon-hong to search for the girl herself. As the days pass and her distress grows, she begins uncovering details about her daughter's life and about the people around her, and the missing-person case turns into something larger involving a cover-up. The story unfolds over roughly the fifteen days leading up to the election.

The film is a Korean drama and thriller directed by Lee Kyoung-mi, who wrote the screenplay with Park Chan-wook and Chung Seo-kyung. It is her first feature, preceding Project 30 in her filmography. Son Ye-jin plays Yeon-hong and Kim Joo-hyuk plays her husband Jong-chan, with Choi Yu-hwa as Son So-ra and Kim Min-jae as the Secretary General among a credited cast of twenty-one. It was produced by Kim Bo-ram through CJ Entertainment, Film Train and Gummy Film, and runs 102 minutes.

The Truth Beneath was released in June 2016. On IMDb it holds a rating of 6.8 from around 1,900 votes, and on TMDB it also stands at 6.8, from a much smaller base of 63 votes.