Following the 2009 financial crash, Waseda University graduate Takeshi lost his job in Tokyo and retreated to his family home in Sendai. While he resumed his role as heir to the family construction company with a diligent attitude, his hidebound father resents that his son left and that at the age of 35 Takeshi is still single. However, wider events will force father and son to overcome their differences as the Otsunahiki, a great tug-of-war featuring thousands of participants, will pull them together in a family tradition just as Takeshi meets Jiheyun, a beautiful Korean doctor on an exchange programme... The ties of family bind people tightly as characters struggle with the push of their own ambitious urges and the pull of family commitments but the Otsunahiki ropes things together in a family drama rich with events and the culture of Sendai, that will tug and the heartstrings of viewers whilst providing to the desire to visit the beautiful and storied region.

冠婚葬祭など、さまざまなシーンで依頼主が求める人物に成り切る“代行屋”に勤める晴子（高畑淳子）が、老舗料亭で起こった事件を解決する。晴子は持病の発作で倒れた料亭のおかみ・真弓（朝加真由美）から、おかみ代行を依頼される。そんな中、料亭の専務・昭吾（田中隆三）が焼死する事件が発生する。

A woman has trained her ex-best friend's son to be her sexual slave for 20 years because her best friend stole her first love. What was meant to be revenge. Ending will come with great impact.