Shino Sakuragi

北国の湿原を望むラブホテル「ホテルローヤル」経営者の一人娘・田中雅代は受験に失敗し、渋々実家の仕事を手伝うことになる。アダルトグッズ会社の営業・宮川聡史に思いを寄せながら、告白することなく淡々と仕事をこなす間にも、ホテルにはさまざまな境遇の男女が訪れる。ある日、ホテルの一室で心中事件が起こり、さらに父・大吉が病気で倒れてしまう。

Mayu Daimon is a woman who does not remember her mother's face, and her father is the only person she has blood relationship in this world, but he is going to die soon. Mayu has just started a new life as a detective at the Criminal Investigation Division which deals mainly with murder cases soon, and has to handle with two corpses of old men continuously. One corpse found frozen buried in the snow and the freezing sea. Soon with a detailed investigation she finds out a connection between the two cases which seemed to be completely different at first glance. It was just the breach to open a history of an incident which had origin back to the 1960s in Aomori Prefecture. Growing more and more as a detective, Mayu has to unravel the mystery of a case which goes beyond time and space and which ends in Hokkaido with a result that no one expected.

北海道旭川の地方裁判所判事だった鷲田は、覚せい剤事件の被告となった昔の恋人・冴子と法廷で再会。東京に妻子を置いてきた身でありながら、関係をよみがえらせてしまう。だが、その半年後に彼女を失って深く傷つく。それから25年後、鷲田は判事を辞め、妻子と別れ、釧路で国選弁護専門の弁護士として孤独な日々を送っていた。そんな中、担当することになった事件の被告人・敦子と出会った彼は、彼女に冴子の面影を見る。一方の敦子も鷲田に心を許す。