Takashige Kikui

Little Towa lives with his parents Satsuki and Yuichi in a coastal town on Nagashima. Yuichi is a fisherman, Satsuki runs a restaurant. What Towa doesn’t know is that he is adopted. As a baby, he was abandoned in an internet café, completely emaciated. While his new parents are secretly fighting for custody of him and want to protect him from his past, the family’s happiness begins to falter. Satsuki and Yuichi aren’t the only ones who are worried about Towa’s future.

'We have to kill him', the wife and her lover thought. When three childhood friends reunite, it doesn't take long before two of them feel the woman's husband is in their way. They push him into a lake, but the boat capsizes and all three are thrown into the water. The lovers reach the shore, but the husband is nowhere. Has he drowned? They decide to wait at a lakeside hotel for his body to be found.

Terako (Sakura Ando) está en medio de una aventura amorosa con un hombre casado llamado Iwanaga (Arata Iura), mientras su esposa está en coma. El mejor amigo de Terako, Shiori, se gana la vida como "soineya" –alguien que vende el acto de dormir en la misma cama con la gente–. Cuando Shiori se suicida, Terako queda devastada y comienza a pasar más y más tiempo durmiendo a medida que se siente abrumada por la soledad.

Haru works at a part-time job for a bookstore. Her dream is to become an illustrator and she also loves cats. One day, after a cat named Chibutomu disappears from the bookstore Haru canvasses the neighbourhood in search of Chibutomu.

Tras haber salido de prisión y cansada de los cotilleos del vecindario sobre ella y su familia, Suzuko Sato, una joven de 21 años, decide vagar por todo Japón, estableciéndose en un lugar hasta que ahorra un millón de yenes, momento en el que se marcha a otro destino para vivir nuevas experiencias y conocer a otras personas.

Naruse Uta is a "unique" 13 year old child. She possessed the talent to read sheet music even before she could speak, but has now come to the point where she hates playing the piano. Her father was also a piano virtuoso, but mysteriously disappeared from her life at a young age. Because of her father's disappearance Uta's mother had to move out of their posh home and into a far modest working class neighborhood. In this working class neighborhood there is a local grocer. The grocer's son Kikuna Oto happens to be a budding musician, but lacks the drive to truly succeed. That is until Uta Naruse comes into his life...