This episode is about a high school student (about grade 10) who is the only working person in the family after her mom became sick and her dad was laid off and became alcoholic. She berates her father every day for not having a job and pretty much acts miserably to her plight. The father does secretly try to look for jobs every day but due to his age in the 50s, has a lot of difficulty (first question he's asked is always his age). He silently suffers his daughter's insults every day without explaining his action and struggle. In the end he's able to land a job at a construction company while filming the show.
This ep is a reminder to me that no one likes somebody who acts miserable. The daughter is understandably a teen with a lot of burden, but acting angry, angsty and woe-is-me has some kind of off-putting quality. Perhaps it's not fair, but that's how it is, and it seems one must stoically faces one's challenge. That doesn't mean you should not communicate or explain yourself, like the father who keeps building misunderstanding with his daughter and doesn't bother showing her his efforts to not be a lazy alcoholic.
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