Yuriko Takizawa
良人は、下町にのれんを出す人気焼肉店「根岸苑」を一人で切り盛りする母の安江(りょう)の手料理を食べるのが楽しみだった。だが、ある出来事をきっかけに店は閉店し、成長した良人(NAOTO)は家を出て、しがないライターとして暮らしていた。ある日、彼はグルメ情報サイトの立ち上げを任される。ところが、時を同じくして疎遠になっていた母が倒れたとの連絡を受ける。
ワインソムリエを目指す農大の学生、詩織だが、実習先に決まったのは大の苦手とする日本酒の、その酒蔵。実習単位を取らなくてはフランス留学が夢で終わるため、渋々、東広島・西条にある乃神酒造に出向くが、今年は実習生の受け入れ予定はないと断られる。詩織は食い下がり、農家の娘・美咲の助けでなんとか実習ができることに。だがそこで始まった実習はまるで修業だった。そんな中、彼女は蔵元の息子・莞爾と最悪の出会う。
Kazuyo's Mother
Ayano Mishima works as an AD at a TV broadcasting station. She covers the mysterious death case of a young man. Before he died, he said that somebody was watching him. Covering the case, Ayano Mishima realizes that the mysterious eye is also coming after her.
HIrata Makiko
Sawagura Nobuko is back housekeeping again in this sequel to the 2014 SP! This time around Nobuko, having been given some pearl earrings as a present sometime before, decides to attend an exhibition for a pearl described as being the world's most expensive one. That pearl is owned by the Iwakura family, who run a large pearl company. While looking at the pearl however, Nobuko is pulled away by a handsome man who seems to have some connection to the family. So when Nobuko finds one of her pearl earrings missing and probably taken by that man, she decides to work as a housekeeper for the Iwakura family until the man shows up again and she can get her earring back. But the Iwakura family that Nobuko is now working for has plenty of secrets beyond just pearls that she'll have to sort out if she wants her earring back...
Makiko Hirata
Nobuko Sawaguchi is a surly, unattractive housekeeper in her mid-thirties. However, in actuality, she is a beautiful woman, but she hides this fact using her makeup because of a traumatic past experience. One day Nobuko is sent to housekeep for the Uehara family, known for its tremendous wealth. In the Uehara family, there is a massive quarrel over each member’s future succession and inheritance. In the middle of this hectic situation, Nobuko is asked by the daughter called Akemi to protect her.
Nobuko is a plain, unattractive woman with disheveled hair, and is hired as a housekeeper in the Inamura residence in Tokyo. The Inamuras are a family of six. The father, Tatsuya, is the head of a university hospital's department of internal medicine. He lives with his wife Haruko, their three sons, and Tatsuya's mother, Shigeko. Although the Inamuras appear to be a happy family, Nobuko soon uncovers the truth.
Nami Matsuzaki
Nami, the young madam of a well-established hot spring hotel in Kotohira, is reunited with her childhood friend Kana who has come to participate in an art auction. However, when people with links to the auction start getting killed one after another, Nami sets out to find the criminal with her detective husband Ryohei.
西日本最大のヤクザ一家・館山組の系列下にある京都の拝島組。獄中にいる夫の泰次になり代わって、妻の久仁子が拝島組を取り仕切っていたが、ある日、館山組の総長が急死。その後を継ぐ7代目には、入れ札により、若頭の拝島を差し置いて若頭補佐の半沢にいったん決まりかけるが、入れ札の買収疑惑が持ち上がり、紛糾する事態に。唐津組組長の唐津は、拝島組と半沢組の対立をあおった上で、漁夫の利を得ようと画策する。
Akane is the young mistress of Notoraku Inn in Ishikawa Prefecture. She is trained by her mother-in-law, Takako, daily. One day, as Yohei, Akane's husband, and Takako are on their way to a friend's wedding, Rekiko, Yohei's childhood friend, confesses her feelings for Yohei in front of everyone at the hotel. The next day, Reiko's body is found and Akane and Yohei become murder suspects.
元老中・水野忠邦と組んだ大奥・姉小路一派は、お家乗っ取りのため、生後すぐ捨てられたという、徳川家定の双子の兄弟を捜していた。一方、それを知った家定の母は、大奥掃除人の四郎に問題の子の発見と始末を命じる。そんな折、老浮世絵師・葛飾北斎が謎の死を遂げ、犯人を捜す主水は、捜査の中で北斎が最後に描いた似顔絵とそっくりな少女・捨蔵を発見する。実は、彼女こそが大奥の二派が血眼で捜す将軍家の落とし種だった。
A group of friends raised in a children's home encounter each other again as adults.
