Lee Bo-youngJo Seung-wooKim Tae-wooJung Gyu-woonKim Yoo-bin
Cast
Lee Bo‑young, Jo Seung‑woo, Jung Gyu‑woon, No Min‑woo, Baro
Similar
Faith, Three Days, Cunning Single Lady, Bride of the Century, Doctor Stranger
God's Gift – 14 Days (Hangul: 신의 선물 – 14일; RR: Sinui Sunmul – 14il) is a 2014 South Korean television series written by Choi Ran (the writer of Iljimae), starring Lee Bo-young, Jo Seung-woo, Kim Tae-woo, Jung Gyu-woon and Kim Yoo-bin. It aired on SBS from March 3 to April 22, 2014, on Mondays and Tuesdays at 21:55 for 16 episodes.
Kim Soo-hyun is a mother whose young daughter Han Saet-byul gets kidnapped and murdered. Discovering a miraculous ability to go back in time exactly two weeks before the event, Soo-hyun is determined to expose the kidnapping plot and save her daughter before she dies all over again. Helping her is Ki Dong-chan, a former cop turned private investigator out to prove the innocence of his mentally challenged brother, who is falsely accused of murdering Dong-chan's ex-girlfriend. As Soo-hyun and Dong-chan race against the clock in the allotted 14 days, new light is shed on the crimes, and they uncover secrets far more treacherous than Soo-hyun could have ever imagined.
A successful TV writer for a current affairs program. She travels back in time to bring her dead child back to life.
Jo Seung-woo as Ki Dong-chan
He was once an outstanding police officer, who left the force after a certain incident. Now a private investigator, Dong-chan has a personal connection to the case and helps Soo-hyun when she goes back in time.
He is a human rights lawyer who is passionate about his work and is a loving husband to Soo-hyun and devoted father to Saet-byul. But he is also harboring a secret.
A detective in the violent crimes division, he graduated the police academy at the top of his class and is already known as future police commissioner material. He is Soo-hyun's first love, and she suddenly comes to him out of nowhere and begs him to find the suspect who will kill her daughter in two weeks' time. Initially disbelieving, he gets sucked into the case and puts his career on the line to help her.
Kim Yoo-bin as Han Saet-byul
Soo-hyun and Ji-hoon's daughter. Saet-byul is quirky and cute, though a bit of an outsider at school. She doesn't get good grades, but is warm and kind despite the fact that the other kids leave her out and call her the weird kid. Her one friend is Young-gyu.
Baro as Ki Young-gyu
A developmentally disabled teenage boy with the mental age of a six-year-old. He is Saet-byul's kindergarten classmate and friend, and tries to save her from the kidnapper.
Han Sunhwa as Jenny
She started out as a con artist who'd already been to jail five times, until Dong-chan hired her as a fraud detection expert.
Supporting characters
Park Hye-sook as Jang Mi-soon
Soo-hyun's mother.
Kim Jin-hee as Joo Min-ah
Soo-hyun's junior colleague who had an affair with Ji-hoon. She became pregnant with his child, but miscarried when she fell down the stairs while Ji-hoon was forcing her to go to an abortion clinic.
After witnessing his beloved older brother's suicide, he went into a long period of depression. He decides to fulfill his brother's lifelong dream of becoming a musician in his place, and successfully becomes the front man of the rock band Snake. He is Saet-byul's favorite idol singer. However, unforeseen events threaten to quash his dreams altogether when the shoe of a missing child is discovered in his van. Although he isn't prosecuted as a criminal, he is still considered as a possible suspect in the case.
It aired in Thailand on PPTV beginning October 7, 2014, dubbed as Sibsee Wan Sawan Kamnod . ("14 วัน สวรรค์กำหนด").
Remake
On December 16, 2016, ABC announced a 10 episode straight-to-series order for an American remake of the series which will be titled Somewhere Between, and will start shooting in Vancouver, Canada, in March 2017, for an air date in June 2017. It will be written by Stephen Tolkin (Legend of the Seeker, Brothers & Sisters). Paula Patton, Devon Sawa and JR Bourne are attached as the lead.
