An idle part-time college lecturer is annoyed by the yapping sound of a nearby dog. He decides to take drastic action.

In a future where a failed global-warming experiment kills off most life on the planet, a class system evolves aboard the Snowpiercer, a train that travels around the globe via a perpetual-motion engine.

During the late 1980s, two detectives in a South Korean province attempt to solve the nation's first series of rape-and-murder cases.