The story, without the spoilers.
Kim Se-hee is a respected hospital director who secretly runs an illegal adoption organisation, taking in abandoned children and selling them to the highest bidder. Kim Ah-hyun is one of those children: abandoned, hurt and now grown into a young woman who refuses to stay silent. With other survivors at her side, she sets out to expose Se-hee and protect the children still trapped in the system. The Defects is a short, furious action thriller based on a webtoon, and it does not waste a scene. Yum Jung-ah is chilling as the elegant villain hiding cruelty behind charity, and Won Jin-ah is fierce and focused as Ah-hyun. The story is dark, the violence is direct, and the eight-episode length keeps the pace tight. Some characters are drawn in broad strokes and the ending ties things up quickly, but as a revenge story about abandoned children fighting back, it is powerful and hard to forget.
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