It's a bizarre and captivating premise: returning home after a night of drinking, a businessman is mysteriously kidnapped and imprisoned. He has no idea who his captors are, or what his crime has been. Worse, he has no idea how long he will be imprisoned. The years drag on and his anger and rage grow. In between the periods of psychosis and helpless anguish he learns from the small television in his room that his wife has been murdered and that he has been charged, in absentia, with the crime. Then one day, quite without warning or reason, he is set free, given money and a mobile phone, and invited to find the man who stole fifteen years of his life. Kinetic and energetic, funny and more than a little insane, Old Boy is a turbo-charged explosion of narrative that grabs you from its opening frame and never lets go.