Navillera

Yong-pil is gone. His friends gather for lunch and a drink to commemorate, although Deok-chul says he quit drinking when he was 70 — a joke, because we later learn it’s also his 70th birthday. They chat about mortality. So many in this group of friends miss these gatherings — they’re caring for grandchildren or ill or dead themselves. Deok-chul seems to have an upbeat disposition despite the gloom-and-doom talk. On his way home, he stops at a ballet studio, which he sees in slow motion with uber-dramatic music playing, so it must Mean Something. At first it’s empty, then he sees a dancer on the floor, and Deok-chul is enraptured by his graceful and majestic moves (set to even more uber-dramatic music). We aren’t sure if the scene is real or fantasy, but does it matter? Probably not, because there’s the sudden feeling that Deok-chul has lost time he wants to make up.Navillera Season 1 Download.

Turns out, the dancer was indeed real, and not a figment. His name is Chae-rok (Song Kang), he’s 23 and has The Stuff. His coach, former ballet star Ki Seung-joo (Kim Tae-hoon), believes he’s a great talent. But Chae-rok lacks focus, and as most ballet coaches in TV and movies are, Seung-joo is harsh with his criticism. Chae-rok chose to train for a National Ballet audition instead of a touring gig; he works as a waiter in a fancy restaurant, and won’t quit to focus on dance; his father is in prison and his mother is dead. He seems hamstrung by his depression. Some former classmates — and former friends, possibly — visit the restaurant, and shame Chae-rok for his father’s misdeeds. He carries that burden around with him, and is facing a crossroads, as his father is about to be released from incarceration. “I don’t have a father,” he sputters astringently.

The episode switches between Deok-chul and Chae-rok’s stories. At Deok-chul’s birthday party, his adult children and grandchildren bicker bitterly.