How to Escape From the Circle

Synopsis

Howoon Group is one of Asia’s largest illicit arms and drugs trafficking organisations, operating under the guise of a food company. Che-ran, the group’s true heir, suddenly went missing two years ago. Her husband, Kangwoo, who had been keeping her disappearance a secret, is finally forced to reveal the truth to his father—the chairman of Howoon Group—as the launch date for a new medicine draws near.

As Che-ran was the only person in the group capable of perfectly replicating the drug’s formula, her disappearance threatened to cause enormous financial losses to the company; consequently, Kangwoo sets out—albeit belatedly—to track her down. Before long, Kangwoo receives information that Che-ran is living in a flat in Setagaya Ward, Tokyo, Japan. However, upon arriving there, Che-ran, whom he had been desperately searching for, had already vanished; instead, he comes face to face with a man named Dohwa, who claims to have been Che-ran’s housekeeper.

The precarious love story of these two men, which began with the strange shared purpose of having to meet a certain woman, unfolded one sweltering summer’s day in the rain.