I have never downloaded any Netflix show before but I can’t resist Navillera. When I get on my flight tomorrow, I want to make sure I get to watch the remaining episodes. That’s how moving this series is to me.
Recently retired, harabeoji Sim decides to live his lifelong dream and starts taking ballet lessons.
He knows that he will never be able to dance professionally but the grandpa, who worked his entire life as a civil servant, believes he deserves a chance to soar like an eagle one day.
His teacher, a young man who has full potential to become a world class dancer, reluctantly takes on the ‘punishment’ of having to teach an old man in the beginning but soon grows to respect and love his ’manager’.
Even family members who objected initially to his ‘unusual retirement hobby’ come around eventually.
Why is it embarrassing for an old man to want to learn ballet?
Because to most of the ‘normal’ world, real men do real work and dancing is not real; only those who can’t succeed in life pursue the arts.
Not surprisingly, the young man realises, through the determination of harabeoji what it really means to love what you do.
He finally sees how privileged he has been, to be able to dance. The lessons, you will realise, are not about ballet. They are about life. I salute harabeoji and I salute the makers of this series who dare to tackle such a subject.