KJ2025

This drama takes us into the job of trauma cleaning. We are introduced to a father and son team whose job is to handle the final move of the deceased. The care and respect they give the dead is worth mentioning. In some cases, they were the only ones to extend such a courtesy. In spite of the somberness of the job, the father and son have a beautiful loving relationship. The son has Asperger’s so he has special abilities with memory and prefers to avoid physical contact and noise. Tang Jun Sang did an excellent job portraying this young man. Sang-Gu (the uncle) enters the scene when Jeong-u passes and there is a very different dynamic for Geu-ru. While some thought too much time was spent on the heart boxes, I think we had to walk with Sang-Gu through these histories of the deceased to have our hearts opened along with his to understand the stories left for us from departed ones if we have eyes to see what they are saying. It takes time for this to register and I think the writer and actors did an excellent job of presenting that. There are many powerful and emotional scenes that have you experiencing the stories with them. I would have liked a different ending for the evil manager and preferred a bit calmer version of Na-Mu and without her mom almost entirely. Their loudness was too big an opposite to Geu-ru’s quiet nature. But I can only praise this cast for helping us reflect on matters we overlook or opt to wait til later to address. It lets us see life through the dead and that is a very interesting perspective.