Possible Love: A Documentary Camera Reveals the Hidden Desires of Two Couples

Possible Love is Lee Chang-dong’s drama about a laid-off worker and his wife whose lives intersect with a documentary filmmaker and her husband, exposing hidden desires. After its Korean theatrical re

When a Camera Is Placed Between Two Couples

begins when Yeji, a documentary filmmaker, enters the lives of Hoseok, who has been unable to return to everyday life after being laid off, and his wife Miok, who works at a factory. Yeji, whom they meet at the funeral of a former colleague, is preparing a film about laid-off workers, and Miok decides to place her daily life and past before the camera. This choice also draws Yeji’s husband Sangwoo into the couple’s sphere of life.

The contrast created by the film goes beyond the simple arrangement of the person recording and the person being recorded. The two couples, whose economic circumstances and ways of life differ, come to observe each other up close, bringing the desires and discomforts within their relationships to the surface. As Netflix’s synopsis suggests, the work centers on the four characters confronting different lives and hidden desires.

This is director Lee Chang-dong’s first feature in eight years since *Burning*, with Jeon Do-yeon, Sol Kyung-gu, Jo In-sung, and Jo Yeo-jeong playing the two couples. It opened in South Korean theaters first on September 23, 2026, followed by theatrical releases in Australia, the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan, and other countries, before its scheduled worldwide Netflix release on November 6.