THE CHASER World Cinema

Ex-cop pimp Joong-ho is irritated because his girls keep disappearing without clearing their debts . One night, he gets a call from a customer and sends Min-ji. Joong-ho realizes the phone number of the customer matches that of the calls the missing girls got last. As something smells fishy, he searches for her During his search, Joong-ho dents a car in the alley When he spots blood splattered on the driver’s shirt, he senses the man, Yeong·min, is the suspect. After an intense chase he catches Yeong·min. But because of Joong-ho’s pretense as a cop , they are both taken to the police station. At the station, the man bluntly confesses he has killed the missing women, and the last girl, Min-ji, may still be alive. As the whole police force is obsessed with a random search for corpses, Joong-ho is the only one who believes Min-ji is still alive. With only 12 hours left to detain the serial killer without a warrant, his hunt begins, searching for Min-ji trapped in a place nobody knows.