Yuko Hizaki is a child psychologist working for the city’s child counseling service. She’s saddled by a senile father and a mother grown weary of nursing.
Shunsuke Sudo is a high school teacher resistant to the idea of marrying and building a family with his girlfriend. Ai Yoshizawa, who is highly antisocial, is one of his students. Koki Mamihara is a cop who suspects foul play in a family suicide. The case begins to rouse each character to life amid a rush of events in this foray into the pettiness, pathos and nobility of human nature, based on a representative work by novelist Arata Tendo.

Do you have a teacher you will never forget?
An ordinary looking school and a typical classroom. So many students have passed through it over the years; as have many battle-scarred teachers. A message on the blackboard embodies three dramatic periods in Japan’s postmodern history. There was the time just after World War II, the economic miracle that followed, and the recent devastating earthquake and tsunami. Viewed from three fascinating and iconoclastic teachers living through these three revolutionary milestones moments, here is a story that drives at the heart of education. What did these children learn? What were the adults able to impart to them? What does it mean to be Japanese? And what are the hopes and dreams of people of all ages?

A mother-in-law and her daughter-in-law in completely different positions are bewildered by each other’s different values, confront each other, and understand each other... It is a domestic drama full of “laughter, sympathy, tears, and excitement." The daughter-in-law, who is a “workaholic” career woman and wife, and her mother-in-law, who is a “model full-time housewife,” begin to fight against each other on their values and pride!

Soon to be married, Miyuki and Makoto are ready to start a beautiful life together. However, Makoto is asked by his company to take care of a problem overseas right after the wedding. Miyuki’s married friends are envious that she can still work and maintain some independence in her single married life, but Makoto’s parents suddenly become ill and it falls to her to care for his bedridden father. Can Miyuki find a way to cope with her familial obligations in her husband’s absence?