O-bokโs eldest daughter is about to get married to an educated, well-off young man, but sheโs far from happy. Itโs not just hot weather, hot flushes, her daughtersโ materialism, her motherโs dementia, her husbandโs drinking, or the impending gentrification of the food market where she sells fish โ although all of that will push her to take a stand. After trying to cover it up, O-bok reveals to her daughter that she was raped by a fellow stallholder, the man organising the traders against their landlords. Increasingly furious, O-bok eschews the useless police to pursue her own justice, even if it means a physical fight.