Actor

January 23, 2008. The winter production is postponed. Dongshik has an option he needs to keep open. Sooa tells Woojin she does not know if she is okay.

January 2008. The teacher calls Sooa in for a meeting. That evening, Dongshik receives a phone call from a TV drama director.

December 31, 2007. The last night of the year. The three of them on the sofa, the bell ringing, and everything the year was.

December 24, 2007. Woojin lies awake and listens to what the walls hold.

December 22, 2007. Woojin performs the child lost in the snow—and learns that the right amount is not always enough to stay in control.

Saturday, December 2007. Woojin goes to his father’s rehearsal and learns where the air goes.

December 2007. Woojin discovers that the hardest role he has ever played is not on any stage—it is being six years old.

November 2007. Woojin watches his father perform from twenty rows back, and for the first time says aloud what he has always known.

A rainy Thursday in August: Dongshik writes a market monologue for Woojin and spends an afternoon teaching him—not how to perform, but how to carry. Woojin tells his father he’s been practicing alone since he was two.

A July afternoon: the shoebox from the wardrobe shelf comes down. Sooa tells Woojin about the six years before him—three programs, a letter from Minhyuk, a stage she could not go further on. Woojin understands what she gave him without knowing it.