
P E R S E P H O N E
Living in a small, isolated town in the countryside, Persephone (Shin Min Ah) has known happiness, but never contentment. For all that she loves her mother and her friends, she feels restless and unfulfilled. That changes, however, when the ground splits open beneath her feet and she’s carried off by Hades (Choi Seunghyun), the god of the underworld. His realm is a place of shadow and magic, where gemstones glitter in dark stone walls and chairs are carved of bone, where rivers are made of human souls and pomegranates grow on dead trees. Although furious and frightened, Persephone feels a kinship with the denizens of the underworld, even its distant, imposing god-king. So when he offers her a throne, obviously expecting resistance, she takes it, determined that whatever else happens, Hades will get more than he bargained for.
Shin Min Ah is a great actress, and really versatile. I’m used to seeing her in romcoms, but I recently watched her play...