The VegetarianYeong hye and her husband are ordinary people. He is an office worker with moderate ambitions and mild manners, she is an uninspired but dutiful wife. The acceptable flatline of their marriage is interrupted when Yeong hye, seeking a more 'plant like' existence, commits a shocking act of subversion. As her rebellion manifests in ever more bizarre and frightening forms, Yeong hye spirals further and further into her fantasies of abandoning her fleshly