Abandoned as a child, Su Hee (Park Ji Won) grew up in a Christian institution for the disabled. The institution is not a pleasant place to be, with some staff being outright abusive, but Su Hee makes do with life on her own terms. She falls in love with another man at the same institution, and they spend time together in a secret room that no one knows about. When Su Hee becomes pregnant, the authorities suspect that she's been raped, and move her to another facility, leaving Su Hee at a loss. Directed by Ham Kyoung-Rock, the indie drama Elbowroom sensitively and realistically follows the struggles and yearnings of a young woman with cerebral palsy, bravely depicted by Park Ji Won who suffers from the condition in real life. Elbowroom played at the Rotterdam and Jeonju International Film Festivals, and won the Butterfly Award as the 2010 Cinema Digital Seoul Film Festival.

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