India, Nov. 8 -- When your life starts resembling a cage and you experience never-ending torture and trauma, is committing a crime to break free justified? That's the morally ambiguous question that will linger in your mind after the ending of As You Stood By, Netflix's latest K-drama.

Having premiered at the 30th Busan International Film Festival's 'On Screen' section, this Netflix thriller series reimagines Japanese author Hideo Okuda's novel Naomi and Kanako through the lens of director Lee Jeong-lim. The K-drama follows two young women, Jo Eun-su (played by Jeon So-nee) and Jo Hui-su (played by Lee You-mi), who decide that murder is the only way out of a miserable life shaped by trauma and enabled by a system that has repeatedly fail...