Move to Heaven

May 14, 2021

Geu-ru (Tang Jun-sang) arrives at a client's apartment in Nowon-gu with his father to clear the belongings of someone who died alone. The apartment's contents — meticulously examined — tell a life story. Sang-gu (Lee Je-hoon) is introduced as the uncle who will disrupt everything.

May 14, 2021

A young soldier's room. His belongings tell a story his commanding officers would prefer to remain untold. The D.P. unit's parallel world — soldiers who disappear — resonates.

May 14, 2021

A mother who died leaving a child. What she left behind reveals the extraordinary lengths of ordinary maternal love. The Nowon neighbourhood at its most ordinary and most human.

May 14, 2021

Sang-gu continues to resist his guardianship of Geu-ru. Their early conflict — his resentment, Geu-ru's complete lack of social armour — is the drama's most uncomfortable dynamic.

May 14, 2021

A foreign worker's belongings. The drama's most politically pointed episode — the objects left behind by someone Korea's official narrative does not acknowledge.

May 14, 2021

An elderly man's apartment containing decades of unsent letters. The drama's most purely heartbreaking episode.

May 14, 2021

The full story of Geu-ru's father — who he was, what he did, why he started Move to Heaven — is revealed.

May 14, 2021

Sang-gu's resistance to Geu-ru begins, slowly and without announcement, to become something else. The drama does not rush this.

May 14, 2021

The penultimate episode's client whose belongings connect directly to Sang-gu's own past.

May 14, 2021

The finale. Lee Je-hoon's performance as a man who arrived resentful and left transformed — without the drama ever making that transformation sentimental — is one of 2021's finest. The Mapo van's last route.