Unremarkable office worker, Kazuhisa Fukase, leads a boring life. The only place he can relax is the Clover Coffee Shop. Here he meets Mihoko Ochi and they begin to date. Just as he begins to grow accustomed to a more enjoyable life, something occurs that drives a wedge between the lovers. Mihoko receives a letter that accuses Fukase of being a murderer. Fukase realizes that he must now disclose the only darkness that happened in his life. He begins to tell Mihoko of a “secret” that he has not spoken of for ten years…
Everyone sins. But how can you forgive and be forgiven?

Shinobu is an inexperienced grade school teacher who has just been hired on a temporary basis to take over Class no. 2 of the 6th grade in a seedy district of downtown Osaka. But Shinobu, full of curiosity and energy, cannot seem to help sticking her nose into the many crimes and mysterious goings-on in the community that surrounds her school. Together with her equally curious and energetic students, they form a junior detectives club and go on a great adventure assisting local police solve head-scratching cases. Fortunately, Shinobu is a woman with a keen intuitive sense and extraordinary power of deduction. As a lover of mystery novels and an abhorrer of wrongdoing, she’s committed to keeping the community safe for her students, pursuing criminal activity with a vengeance culminating each week with the climactic call: “Don’t mess with Oji Elementary’s Shinobu!”

Satomi is 33 years old and a teacher of Japanese history at a prestigious private high school. By anyone’s standards, she has both talent and beauty, but has been dubbed Ms. “Party of One” for wanting to do everything completely on her own. Work has been pretty hectic for her of late, and she has no time nor inclination for romance. But at a welcoming reception for a handsome new teacher 10 years her junior, Shinichi, she winds up releasing built-up tension in her life by getting very drunk. When she awakes the next morning, she is greeted by a terrible hangover and the sight of Shinichi, lying on the floor!

A struggling lawyer, Kenji Sakuragi, takes a position at private school Ryuzan High to pay off his debts. Kenji decides to try to turn this hopeless school into one of the elite institutions in Japan to help rejuvenate his career. His barometer of success will be to get five of his students admitted to the prestigious Tokyo University the following year. But rather than cramming them with lots of general information, his down-to-earth class concentrates on unknown techniques for passing the entrance examination and how to live a good life in these turbulent times. His refreshing outlook and strategy may just be what is needed to turn around the future prospects of himself and his students, and teach the rest of us a thing or two as well!

Based on a true story from Hokkaido’s Hokusei Yoichi High School, the first high school in Japan to accept high school dropouts nationwide and the subject of a successful documentary, this drama will follow a former gang member, dropout and graduate of the school who returns as a teacher. We will follow him as he helps graduating students out into the world. The teachers and students will, as you would expect, confront all the issues of youth and society today. At this school, there are no compromises, no lies. This drama will move you as both students and teachers face a variety of issues head on. This is a moving story that is created by people coming together and learning to believe in each other.