A Hot Roof (1995)

A Hot Roof 1995 / 개같은 날의 오후 1995 / Gaegateun Naluiohu ,

This film is a social comedy which depicts women's endeavor to get the right to live free from men's violence in a male dominated society. The sultry weather is never-ending. People cannot sleep on account of the habitually oppressive heat. The hot days make people irritable. A husband, who habitually beats his wife, is hated by his neighbors. When the neighborhood women come to her rescue, they mistakenly beat her husband to death. Ten of them escape to the top of the apartment building. Each of these women have their own stories and their own reasons for supporting each other. Their sisterhood helps them to be strong and challenge the brutality they sometimes face at their men's hands. They fight for the right to live free without violence.