Three years ago, obstetrician Rin Izumi had a miscarriage, losing the child she and her husband, Keita, had finally conceived after 10 years of trying. It resulted in the removal of Rin’s uterus and estrangement with her husband who as a chocolatier left to work in Paris. They hadn’t seen each other since. “We need to talk about the future,” he says one day informing her of his plans to return home. With confusion in her own life mounting, Rin encounters challenges at work including a pregnant woman formerly treated elsewhere whose baby is born premature. When DNA tests reveal the child to be neither hers nor her husband’s, something is terribly amiss.

There is a love you never notice, that steals up on you from nowhere…
Yukie Kitami president of a small travel agency, lives alone in a city center apartment. Her kid sister Kaori Hayakawa, is married to a salary man, with two children. When the pretty, strong-minded career girl and the dedicated wife and mother meet, they always fall out. One day, their mother collapses and is rushed to hospital. This event triggers changes in the sisters’ daily lives. In your teens and twenties, you always have time for love, but in your thirties and forties, when you have a job and family to worry about, relationships and responsibilities always get in the way. This is an aching, romantic story of the middle-aged in love.

In their 25 years of marriage, Hana and her husband, Taichi, have lived a good life. Having raised two children and entering middle age, Hana’s only disappointment is that her husband no longer sees her as a woman like he used to. But when Hana discovers that Taichi is seeing his daughter’s wedding planner on the side, things quickly take a turn for the worse. Taichi, having taken his quarter century marriage for granted, can hardly believe that his wife would even consider leaving him! Exploring the themes of what it means to be a husband and wife in modern society and the reason that people marry, this drama takes a sincere look at a couple speaking to each other honestly for the first time after having been married for so long.

Motoharu is an elite pilot who has just completed astronaut training at NASA. A past incident has caused him to go out searching for something missing in his life, but he hasn’t been able to find it and thus the void in his heart has only expanded. However, when Akiyama meets Reiko, a director at an investment bank who is looking at investing in an attempt at the first Japanese space shuttle launch, they are both changed forever. Although a mere chance encounter, their meeting seems to have much greater implications and deeper cosmic connections than even they are aware.

Having achieved his life-long dream of being a pilot, Hajime is first officer on an international jetliner and is now working to become a captain. But he can’t seem to please Captain Kouda, who has become an exacting taskmaster since an air incident many years ago. To complicate matters, he begins a relationship with stubborn and straight-talking mechanic, Ayumi, whose parents died many years ago in the plane crash for which Captain Kouda feels he is responsible. What follows is a story of 21st century love, dreams and passion.

At 55, Kan-ichi Kanzaki is the old-fashioned and overbearing father of the Kanzaki family: his wife Miyako, his son Tadashi, and his two daughters Sayuri and Suzu. Being an “oyaji,” a stubborn middle-aged man that cannot keep his opinion to himself, Kan-ichi is particularly bothered when he views what he believes to be a failure in the public’s morals. But unlike the occasional stranger, his kids have to live under his scrutiny every day, and there are plenty of family crises to draw his ire. Although he can be strict, his actions are driven by his love for his family, and one can’t help but be touched and amused by the loving efforts of such an “oyaji.”

Chance encounters on a summer’s day lead two married couples into an unexpected set of parallel affairs. Hidden passions are released when one husband encounters the other’s wife. Then the remaining husband and wife also find themselves swept up in the passion of the moment.