After middle-aged businessman Hyeon-ma (Won Namkung) brings home his male secretary Dan-joo (Ha Myeong-jung) for an unconventional happily ever after, things get only twistier. For this gay love interest falls decidedly elsewhere on the sexual spectrum as he embarks on an affair of his own with Mi-ra (Yoon So-ra), the newly menstruating, younger sister of daddy's wife Se-ran (Choi Ji-hee) who calls herself a concubine. If this sounds like pure melodrama, you're right. Lines like "You're worse than a dog!," "Go back to where you were" and "You bitch!" abound. There's even a nosy maid (Yeo Woon-gye) to spy on the one red-lit sex scene...and then for her to attempt to initiate an intimate encounter all her own.
How can all these conflicts be resolved. The wife thinks it may be as simple as sending her younger sibling to study abroad. Or having her marry a rich, handsome pianist from France. And while that might lead to cocktails for some of those involved, someone else is stuck, locked up in a room, lying under a pile of hay. Such is the world of Ha Gil-jong's The Pollen of Flowers, an over-the-top tragedy built around an obsessive gay lust that appropriately builds to a wedding with a thunderstorm then eventual madness. These characters have definitely earned an extended honeymoon in Mykonos or Puerto Vallarta. Ready for an Atlantis cruise, squirrel friends?
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