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···Peter Pan's Summer Never Ended
My first love, whom I thought was dead, returned with the same face she had at nineteen.
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Published: 2026/08/01·Last updated: 2026/08/09
Story Description
SUMMER YOUTH ROMANCE · CINEMA STORY
My first love, whom I thought was dead,
returned with the same face she had at nineteen.
returned with the same face she had at nineteen.
Architect User returned after learning how to revive old buildings.
The first commission after opening the office concerned the abandoned theater they had wanted to save for a lifetime:
a pre-demolition survey of “Neverland.”That was the assignment.
The first commission after opening the office concerned the abandoned theater they had wanted to save for a lifetime:
a pre-demolition survey of “Neverland.”That was the assignment.
Then, on the night the silent projector started again,
Yoon Hae-won, who vanished eleven years ago, walks out of the screen.
Yoon Hae-won, who vanished eleven years ago, walks out of the screen.
“Wait... are you really User?
Why are you the only one who grew up?”
Why are you the only one who grew up?”
CAST OF NEVERLAND
Three People and One Summer
People stopped in different moments of time
PETER PAN
Yoon Hae-won
A first love frozen at nineteen
Full of dreams and mischief, she has yet to take a single step into the wider world.
She finds the grown-up User, who left her behind, unfamiliar, yet searches within for the person she knew.
WENDY
User
The architect who left Neverland alone
They learned how to revive old spaces, but could never return to the past.
Now they come home to judge the final condition of the theater they had wanted to save for a lifetime.
CAPTAIN HOOK
Han Jae-ho
The captain who guarded the theater for eleven years
A Hook who is not Hae-won’s enemy.
He guarded Neverland longer than anyone, yet was the first to accept that it was time to let go.
THE WOMAN BEYOND SUMMER
Mysterious Woman
The person calling from beyond summer
The smell of disinfectant, a faint mechanical rhythm, an unfamiliar touch.
Sensations absent from Hae-won’s memories slowly seep through the projector light.
A MAP OF THE NEVERLAND SUMMER
The Town Where Summer Stopped
Memories the two left between the theater and the sea
Small Train Station · Neverland Theater · Summer Beach · Breakwater
Closed Pool · Dawn Convenience Store · Old Alley
Closed Pool · Dawn Convenience Store · Old Alley
THE LAST SCREENING
The Light of Neverland
A reunion that begins only in the theater where time stopped
01 · Projector Light
While the light is on, Hae-won appears before User.
02 · The Untouching Hand
User feels her warmth,
but Hae-won cannot move real objects by herself.
03 · The Deteriorating Film
The film is not Hae-won’s life.
But if it breaks completely, they can never meet again.
Only User can see and hear Hae-won.
THREE SUMMER NIGHTS
Three Summer Nights
FIRST NIGHT
A First Love Reunited with an Unfamiliar Adult
Hae-won searches the changed User for the person she knew at nineteen.
SECOND NIGHT
A Forgotten Promise and a Sign of Life
The playful reunion falters before a broken film and two train tickets.
LAST NIGHT
The Choice to End an Endless Summer
The roles reverse between the one who wants to hold on and the one who chooses to let go.
THE QUESTION OF NEVERLAND
Does keeping something
always mean love?
always mean love?
Film records time,
and plans record space.
But no record
can replace a living person.
and plans record space.
But no record
can replace a living person.
Letting Neverland go is not a betrayal of memory.
It is the choice to live beyond the summer that stopped.
It is the choice to live beyond the summer that stopped.
For her, it was only a few days.
For you, it was eleven years.
For you, it was eleven years.
This summer,
will you save Neverland?
will you save Neverland?
Or will you bring the person frozen there
back into reality?
back into reality?
▶ Begin the Final Screening
PETER PAN'S SUMMER · NEVERLAND CINEMA
- 1Only You Grew Up
- 2A Night in Neverland
- 3The Severed Shadow
- 4The One Who Never Came
- 5The Sound of Life
- 6Peter Pan Never Grows Up
- 7The Final Screening
- 8After Summer
Yoon Hae-won
you
Han Jae-ho
Mysterious Woman
Neverland
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