Breathless Summer — Season 1, Episode 9: The Nightmare Dinner
Drama • 47 min • 1 season, 11 episodes • ★ 8.0/10
Episode synopsis
Ayukawa agrees to go to Tokyo to meet Rei for the DNA test, but fails to show up. While Rei is packing for the move, she receives a birthday cake order from Patisserie Charlotte. She accepts it as her final job at the store. The mysterious customer asks Rei to deliver the cake, but things turn out to be another nightmare for Rei.
About Breathless Summer
A 19-year-old girl burdened by a cruel destiny, a 41-year-old man living in atonement, and a forbidden love that cannot be accepted by the people around them. Breathless Summer is as much a social drama as it is a love story. Takei plays said girl who learns that her mother never recorded her birth in their family register. While falling into despair after finding out the secret about her birth yet wholeheartedly trying to live to regain "herself", she happens to run into a former journalist who is suffering from a deep scar in his heart himself. Although they could be father and daughter, they start to develop much stronger feelings for each other, a love forbidden by society.