Sato es un hombre soltero de 27 años. Está esperando un momento dramático en su vida que lo llevará al amor. Trabaja en una empresa de investigación de mercado. Un día, le pide a un transeúnte frente a la estación Sendai que complete un cuestionario. Le cuesta encontrar participantes dispuestos. Una mujer con un traje negro acepta responder el cuestionario. Sato ve la letra "shampu" en su mano... ¿es este el destino?
Wataru, a freelance cameraman who works for a travel magazine in Tokyo. He had aimed to be a teacher but failed to achieve his goal and left home to go to Tokyo. However, he does not do well in Tokyo and has to return to his hometown. Wataru reunites with his former girlfriend who is a primary school teacher now and through his interaction with his family, friends and a group of primary school students who want to take part in a choir contest, he begins to take steps to resurrect his dream of being a teacher.
The drama is based on the life of the Manchu princess Kawashima Yoshiko, who served as a spy for the Kwantung Army and as a military leader for Manchukuo. The former actress/singer Ri Kouran (also known as Yamaguchi Yoshiko), on the other hand, was a Japanese woman born in China, where she initially built her career as an actress. Although the two were of different generations, they were said to be closely linked at one point.
