Lee Chang Dong's new film Possible Love explores the aftermath of a Korean mass layoff

Lee Chang Dong's seventh feature, Possible Love, draws on real events from 2009, when a Korean conglomerate dismissed roughly a third of its workforce, about 2,600 people. Several of those affected later took their own lives. The film continues Lee's body of work probing class, labor, religion, and the strains of rapid modernization in Korea, and it does so without becoming preachy. Rather than depicting the peak of the labor conflict, it follows the characters after the fact, in a murkier period that resists simple interpretation. The film opens with the epigraph "Thou shall not covet."