There's a lot of coincidence at work in the thriller Circle of Atonement. Teacher Nam Cheol-woong (Son Ho-joon) gets involved with a star pupil Lee Jang-hyun (Kim Yoo-jeong) who is the surviving daughter of Shin Ji-chul (Lim Hyung-joon), the man who years ago murdered his girlfriend Kang Yoo Shin (Seo Ye-ji) who -- in his mind at least -- resembles this new student. Furthermore, Jang-hyun is blamed for killing her own mother with a gun dropped by police officer Lee Sang-won (Sung Dong-il) who was the lead detective on the case involving Yoo Shin and has secretly adopted the basically orphaned Jang-hyun.
I can practically see co-writers/co-directors Lee Dong-ha and Park Eun-kyung's intricately layered corkboard of index cards labeled with characters and plotpoints as well as the web of strings that connects them together like a spider's web. Some of the notes feel sketchy. Would Cheol-woong would want to kill Jang-hyun as revenge? Would Sang-won be so glib about Cheol-woong's slit wrists? When Reporter (Jin Kyung) starts poking around, looking for answers, we've got the same questions and more. But she's got a serious task ahead of her if she wants to write the article documenting this whole chain of events which started with a poor father who can't afford diapers and leads to a double suicide with hydrochloric acid then a pair of handcuffs ripped apart through rage.
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