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.
An abandoned car is discovered near a camping ground and inside it is the body of an identified middle-aged man and a dog who seems to have died months later. This is the story of the life of the loving and faithful dog and his owner told from the dog's point of view. City hall employee Kyousuke Okutsu is assigned to uncover the man's identity for a proper funeral. As he investigates the situation, he remembers his late family and his own dog's unfailing loyalty.
Sakai plays Rui, a 35-year-old single woman forced to live alone after the aunt who raised her suddenly decides to get married and move out. Through an unexpected set of circumstances, she winds up becoming roommates with an aging ladies’ man named Tony and a timid younger man named Kosuke.
В недалеком будущем правительство Японии в попытке исключить суицидальные наклонности у молодых людей и повысить их сознательность, вводит практику «икигами». По результатам национальной лотереи смертной казни подлежит каждый тысячный гражданин в возрасте от 18-х до 24-х лет. За 24 часа до смерти он получает извещение — икигами. Фудзимото Кэнго — новый служащий Министерства здравоохранения и социального обеспечения, его работа — доставлять икигами.
Главного героя зовут Мацутаро Ясуда. Его жена умерла из-за алкоголизма, а дочь винит его в этом. Ясуде пришлось уйти из дома, убежать от всех воспоминаний о том, что он сделал и чего он не сделал. Но там, куда он отправился, он встречает девочку, о которой никто никогда не заботился. После чего, Ясуда решает искупить свои грехи, дав этой девочке то, что не дал своей дочери.