37.5 degrees Celsius is the highest temperature permitted for a child to attend daycare. But children do run fevers, and when that happens, what can you do? Parents can’t simply leave their sick children at home while they go off to work. But they also must work. Enter the “sick child” caregiver to lend a helping hand to parents in a fix. Problem solved. But is leaving a sick child in someone else’s care considered “bad parenting”? What truly defines parental affection, family and parenting? Find out through the daily adventures of Momoko, a child caregiver who, though clumsy in work and love, embraces a host of challenges and difficulties with an honest passion. 37.5-degree Tears examines the different forms that love and parenting take, and is sure to tug at the heartstrings of all parents.

Sora, the third daughter of four sisters, is a selfless soul who runs a medical clinic she inherited from her father which cares for primarily poor and weak patients. Sora is shocked to learn that she has a younger step-sister, Hiyo, whom her father had out of wedlock, and is loath to accept her into the family. However, it is revealed that Hiyo has a secret which pits Sora’s dislike for her step-sister against her otherwise generous nature.

When Kasumi’s husband dies in a car wreck, Ryuichi vows to watch over her and her unborn son. Over the next ten years, he gradually falls in love with Kasumi. Now 35 years old, Kasumi has resisted loving another man for fear of reliving the pain of losing a loved one. She happens to meet Ryuichi’s bad boy younger brother and finds herself physically attracted to him; but Ryuichi finally acts on his bottled-up feelings for Kasumi and asks her to marry him. Kasumi must decide if she can bring herself to fall in love with a responsible man like Ryuichi, or if she can be content with the purely physical relationship that his brother can provide.

This is not a typical heartwarming tale of the love between a mother and daughter. Be prepared for a knock-down, drag-out fight, where stranger is pitted against stranger in a battlefield called “home.” The heroine is an uncoordinated, fun-loving woman who is used to having her own way and could never be mistaken as the model mother. In spite of herself, she discovers how to love and care for a daughter who defies convention. It’s not easy, but it is uproariously fun.

He didn’t even like children, yet without warning, the handsome, single newscaster finds himself playing the role of father to three impertinent daughters. His entire image of the roles of the sexes gets turned upside down as he makes the transition from a swinger into a caring parent.