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In 1970, a Japanese passenger plane is hijacked by armed members of Japan's Red Army Faction, demanding to be flown to Pyongyang to form a Communist revolutionary army capable of toppling the Japanese government. A secret mission unfolds as a committed team, led by an undocumented North Korean defector, navigates a zany scheme to reroute the plane to Seoul, employing tactics that blur the lines between satire and reality. As the hijackers refuse to disembark after noticing discrepancies in their destination, a high-stakes game of cat and mouse ensues, with South Korean officials caught in the middle. Ultimately, a daring rescue mission is executed, but not without exposing the complexities of inter-Korean relations and the bureaucratic spinelessness that often accompanies them.