cast: lee je hoon, tang joon sang, hong seung hee, ji jin hee
genre: life story drama
han geu ru (tang joon sang) is a 20 years old with asperger syndrome that works as trauma cleaner company named "move to heaven" with his father, han jeong woo (ji jin hee). a trauma cleaner is someone who works to clean up dead person's belongings and sometimes gives closure to their family. even though geu ru has asperger, he's really smart and his memory works perfectly but in different way. he's also extremely logical, which sometimes is hard to accept by others. he had lived with his father since his mother died of cancer and worked together. unfortunately, his father hid the truth about his cardiac disease and left geu ru on his own when suddenly he got cardiac arrest. fortunately, he managed to write a will before his death.
in his will, he stated that his brother, cho sang gu (lee je hoon) would be geu ru's guardian and he must stay and work with geu ru for a 3 month probationary period. the estranged uncle was totally different from geu ru's dad. he was an underground MMA fighter that went to jail because he put his opponent into coma after a fight. he smoked and looked reckless from the outside and made yoon na mu (im won hee) worried about geu ru's wellbeings. na mu was geu ru's neighbour as well as geu ru's long time best friend. she decided to join "move to heaven" against her mother's approval.
all throughout the drama we saw that their clients had a life lesson that we could learnt from. the first client from the drama that geu ru and his dad worked on was cleaning up a dorm room of a young man name kim seon woo (hong jin gi). he died in his own room because his company didn't allow him to go to the hospital and he didn't have the money to go to the emergency room. he was suffering from a workplace accident, he broke his foot, but the manager refused to let him see a doctor and he had to wait for the next day. the next day, he was died already. the company tried to cover the fact, but geu ru and his father found proof that the company was at fault. moreover, since both seon woo's parents were deaf and mute, the company manager looked down at them and just shoved some money to keep them quiet. but after some encouragement from geu ru and his dad, seon woo's parents decided to stand up against them. here we see seon woo's dream crushed. he dreamt of going to college and married the girl he liked, but it was gone since the company had a bad work condition.
after his father death, geu ru's first case with his uncle was to clean up a room of an old lady, lee young sun (lee joo sil). she died in her room because she lived alone and her son didn't visit her often so she was found later one when her body has already decomposed. her son and daughter in law just wanted to know whether she kept some precious belongings and asked geu ru and his uncle to get rid the rest. but geu ru, being a stubborn head, proceed with the same method as he used to do with his father. he found some money under the mat but they were in bad condition as she died on the mat and the body has been decomposed. he wanted to give her precious belonging to her son, but he refused. at first the uncle didn't know anything and just tossed it at the back of the waste disposal truck owned by park joo taek (lee moon sik), a colleague of geu ru's dad. geu ru found a way to clean the money but he was puzzled by the story behind all that money.
apparently, lee yeong sun withdrew the same amount of money every monday, wednesday and friday and then made a phone call from the bank. then she walked to a tailor before she went home. geu ru managed to solve the puzzle and excited to tell the son, but he couldn't find the box to give to the family. he became angry when he found out that his uncle had threw it out. geu ru, sang gu, na mu and even mr. park had to search the junkyard because geu ru insisted that it was important stuff and he had to give it to her family. later we found out that lee yeong sun had been withdrawing money to make a suit for her son. she never got the courage to tell her son whom she called from the bank. and the precious item inside the box was thermal underwear that her son gave her years ago but she never got the courage to open it since it was too precious for her. the truth broke her son's down as he didn't take care of his mother while she was still alive.
next was a young woman, lee seon yeong (park shin ah) that was killed by her boyfriend, kim yong woo (shin soo oh). he denied the charges obviously and everyone had known him as a loving boyfriend, so the detective and the prosecutor had a hard time proving that he's guilty. however, thanks to geu ru's diligence and this time sang gu helped as well, they found the evidence that proved that the boyfriend had abused seon young for awhile. he even abused her on that day and indeed killed her. grateful for geu ru's help, the prosecutor gave geu ru her contact so geu ru could contact her if geu ru ever needed help in the future.
their next client was a doctor that died in the emergency center because one of the patient forced them to give him drug while he was holding a knife to one of the nurse. he died for failing to save the nurse and got killed instead. unfortunately, his past was something else. the family tried to bury the truth but geu ru insisted that he should give the box to someone 's important in the doctor's life. it was a cellist that geu ru claimed as his "girlfriend". they went to the music hall tried to meet the cellist. there were three female cellist and one male cellist. however, all three female cellist didn't know the doctor. geu ru managed to uncover that the "girlfriend" was the male cellist. no wonder that the family tried to hide the truth because the parents didn't like their relationship. at the end, geu ru managed to give the box to the male cellist and gave consolation to him.
last two clients were the ones that made them met social worker son woo rim (soo young). the first one was a couple that took their life together. however, the old man contacted move to heaven before so they were the one to find the body. since the couple had no offspring, there was no one to give the box to. and the old man had prepared everything. in fact, he even left a letter saying sorry for the trauma cleaners. when geu ru decided to keep on going, truth was revealed. the old man fired from his security job and had no money to keep her wife in the nursery, so they both decided to take their own lives. however, the sad ending took turn when at the funeral, a chairman happened to know the old man and wanted to pay his respect. such a lonely funeral turned into a solemn one when close people of the chairman decided to pay respect as well.
last client was matthew green (kevin oh). he was adopted since baby to the US but later he was left by his adopted parents thus he had no choice but to leave for korea again. unfortunately, he couldn't find his birth parents as his birth mother refused to meet him. he had heart disease as well and he stayed at a motel by himself so there was no one when he had heart attack. it was woo rim that found him since she couldn't reach him. when geu ru and sang gu cleaned his room, they found some truths about his past. apparently, he was in a halfway house before he was adopted and the daughter of his foster parents became a famous anchor. however, matthew thought that she was his birth mother that refused to meet him since she was famous now. such a sad truth.. but at last the anchorwoman decided to use matthew's death to bring the problem about adoption like matthew to the public and pushed the government to do something about it.
on the side, we also saw about sang gu's past. he was put in jail because he put his opponent into coma. apparently the opponent was his protege (lee jae wook). he decided to give up boxing because he suffered from punch drunk but he was planning to get some winning money for his parents. unfortunately sang gu managed to defeat him and at last he died. but we knew that sang gu was not 100% responsible for his death and the protege's sister also has accepted the fact too. at last sang gu asked the sister to clean the room as a trauma cleaner and gave the box to the sister. sang gu also found the truth about his own past. apparently, sang gu and jeong woo was brother for awhile because sang gu's dad married jeong woo's mother. but after they got divorced, sang gu was left with his father. after sang gu's dad died, jeong woo promised sang gu that he would take care of him, but before he could keep the promise, he was involved in the mall accident (the same one in "my love blooms") when he was buying shoes for sang gu's birthday present. sang gu then grew up resenting jeong woo. later one he found out from geu ru that every year, on his birthday, geu ru and his dad has been fulfilling jeong woo's promise to take sang gu to the amusement park and rode every ride in the park and then ate at three different places and bought a pair of nike shoes. all the shoes were kept in the basement of the house. another truth was geu ru was adopted as well. sang gu found the adoption paper in the basement as well. he tried to hide the truth but geu ru had found out that he was adopted but he knew that his parents loved him so. at the end, we saw that sang gu and geu ru had made a stronger bond, and when the probation ended, geu ru asked the lawyer to ask sang gu to be his permanent guardian, and sang gu agreed.
what i like:
- such a heartwarming story throughout the drama. so many life lesson here. from taking care of your old parents better to try looking each story from other side.
- all the actors and actresses are good. especially geu ru and sang gu. they both are really good.
- no plot hole. they close sang gu's story well and explain everything clearly.
what i don't like:
- they tried to bring up LGBTQ issue again as it's quite a hot topic nowadays.
- some scenes might be gory so they blurred it. i think they should learn to cover it better and not blurring it.
- 10 episodes are too short. however, people have been saying that there might be a second season since the last scene from the last episode has an open ending.
rating: 9/10
binge worthy: yes
recommended from: someone who won't mind sad scenes and sad stories after stories. just prepare your tissue when watching this drama.
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