Memories of the Alhambra

December 1, 2018

Yoo Jin-woo (Hyun Bin) travels to Granada, Spain to meet AR game developer Jung Se-joo. He checks into a rundown hostel and meets the owner's sister Jung Hee-joo (Park Shin-hye). The Alhambra Palace sequences establish the drama's extraordinary visual world.

December 1, 2018

Jin-woo finds Se-joo's AR game and activates it. The Alhambra's medieval architecture overlays with the game's medieval world in a seamless AR environment.

December 8, 2018

Jin-woo's first in-game combat sequence — fighting virtual enemies in the real streets of Granada's old town.

December 8, 2018

Hee-joo's own situation — struggling to maintain her family's hostel while her brother has disappeared — is shown.

December 15, 2018

The game developer has vanished. Jin-woo's investigation of his disappearance and the game's source code begins.

December 15, 2018

The AR game's technology is more advanced than anything that should be possible. Its source represents a scientific breakthrough.

January 26, 2019

A return to Granada for the drama's climax — the Alhambra Palace at night.

January 26, 2019

The finale. A drama whose technical ambition — filming an AR game as a coherent visual experience — was more fully achieved than its narrative resolution, but whose Granada sequences are among the most visually beautiful in Korean drama history.