This biopic is centered on New Year's Day of 1894, when Kitamura is recovering from a suicide attempt. Japan is then under the spell of fervent patriotism because the government wants to build up public support for a war with China. Kitamura's literary friends and militant comrades come to visit. They wonder why Kitamura wants to kill himself. Kitamura at first refuses to receive them, then he sits down with them and looks back on his days as a civil rights militant, his stormy love life and his ardent but destructive desire to live literature to the full.

白石咲和子原是东京急诊中心的一名医生，因一起医疗诉讼事件主动辞职后回了自己的老家金泽。多年以来，她第一次与父亲同住，并在福地诊所担任主治医师。福地诊所的主任仙川彻医生性格开朗，深受患者爱戴；诊所的护士星野麻世抚养着已故姐姐的儿子，并将造福一方患者的仙川医生视为救世主。医学专业毕业却屡试不中的野吕圣二虽然不确定自己是否应该继续从医，也跟随咲和子也加入了福地诊所，成为了这里的一名员工。面对不同的患者，咲和子和麻世提倡采用尊重患者生活方式的治疗方法，每个患者都有自己的治疗问题，也有选择家庭护理的特殊原因……

Ryoko visits brother-in-law Koji to recover from her time at a mental hospital. But she becomes increasingly convinced that Koji's eight year old niece Alice was responsible for her sister Fuyuko's death. Several horrific deaths follow.