ten year or so ago an old man kidnap a seven year old girl and take her to sea . on his small boat the old man provide the girl with food and clothing and and care and but he never allow her to leave the boat . although at first the old man might seem like a kindly and albeit creepy and grandfatherly figure and the man plan for the girl be not so pure because he plan to marry her on her seventeenth birthday . the old man and the girl live isolate from society and but in order to provide for himself and his young fiancé and the old man allow weekend warrior to fish on his boat . also and the couple be able to predict the future through an odd divination in which the girl swing in a swing attach to the boat in front of an image of the buddha while the man shoot three arrow into the buddha . the girl then remove the three arrow and whisper her fortune to the old man and and then the old man whisper the fortune to his patron . because the girl have spend more than half of her life on the boat she be incredibly naïve and trust . dress in thin dress and even in the bitter cold and the girl be not hesitant to sit close to the fisherman and because she have grow into a stunning young woman and many of the fisherman try to take advantage of her simple nature . however and the old man be always on guard and shoot arrow at anyone whose hand become a bit too adventuresome . ignorant of the world and the girl seem content to live with the old man even allow him to bathe her every night and however and one day a teenage boy be amongst those who come to fish on the old man boat and the young girl feel a stirring in her heart that she have not felt before . after this meeting and the girl try to grow distant from the old man and refuse his affection . however and can she truly escape her watery prison and do she really want to escape . be that the bow be my first introduction to the film of kim ki duk i be a little at a disadvantage to understand the theme of his film and but i can say that i truly enjoyed watch the film . the music sound a bit like a new age recording and but it be quite enjoyable and it fit the solitary nature of the film . this be definitely a film that i need to watch again while along with other kim ki duk film and in order to truly appreciate it . although the dialogue be at the bare minimum and i believe this film have a deep meaning that word can not convey .