《女儿》是具惠善继执导电影《妖术》、《桃树》后的第三部作品，也是自导自演的首部电影，从开拍之初就受到了大家的关注。尤其是具惠善用独特的叙述视角和突出的影像美构建的作品世界，让观众们充满了好奇与期待。

　　该片讲述对女儿强制体罚的母亲和承受着苦痛的女儿之间严重代沟的故事。通过成为初中生的“山（具惠善）”和想通过体罚控制自己女儿的“妈妈”之间的矛盾讲述社会问题。

　　《女儿》讲述对女儿强制体罚的母亲和承受着苦痛的女儿之间严重代沟的故事。通过成为初中生的“山（具惠善）”和想通过体罚控制自己女儿的“妈妈”之间的矛盾讲述社会问题。

A mother is seriously obsessed with her daughter. The mother forces her daughter to live a ascetic life and keeps a close watch to ensure she doesn’t stray. Years later, now fully grown up, the daughter learns that her mother is stricken with cancer and visits the hospital. The mother, however, has not changed at all, even while awaiting her imminent death. The daughter visits her former piano teacher, who consoled her when she was young. Since she was not on good terms with her own father, the teacher understands the daughter’s position and tries to support her former student. This teacher now lives alone at her old house after all these years. When the teacher tells the daughter that she took care of her father with Alzheimer’s until he died, the daughter begins to wonder if she, now pregnant, will ever be able to be free from the painful memories involving her mother.

엄마는 늘 낯선 사람이었다 사춘기 소녀 ‘산’에게 세상에서 가장 두려운 존재는 바로 엄마다. 엄마는 산의 주변을 그림자처럼 맴돌며 일거수일투족을 감시한다. 평범한 삶을 살고 싶어하는 산과 그녀를 누구보다 특별한 딸로 키우고 싶어하는 엄마 사이에서는 갈등이 끊이지 않는다. 시간이 흘러 성인이 된 산은 예상치 못한 임신을 통해 잊고 싶었던 엄마와의 아픈 기억들을 떠올리고, 태어나 처음 엄마와 정면으로 마주할 결심을 한다.