Shiratama Sayako has never experienced much good luck. Since she was a child, she dreamed of becoming an architect. She studied hard, but she repeatedly failed her university entrance exams. Now, she is 30 years old and works in a field far away from her ideal job. One day, she happens to meet mysterious university student Ogasawara Taku. She tells him about her past dream of becoming an architect. Ogasawara Taku tells her that it is never too late and that she can still get accepted into a university. Inspired by their talk, Shiratama Sayako decides to study once again for her university entrance exams. After she studies so hard, she finally gets accepted into a university. There, Shiratama Sayako meets Ogasawara Taku again, who is a senior in the architecture department.
After years of blindness, she miraculously regains her sight only to discover her husband having an affair with the nanny. Pretending to still be blind, she plots her revenge on them before leaving, and then shockingly learns that the "son" she has been raising is not her own child. Amidst these bewildering revelations, she meets another woman trapped in a despairing marriage. Together, they support each other and find a way out of their predicaments.
Sia is a young Franco-Ivorian, who after years in France, decides to return to Abidjan, her hometown, to meet her half-sister, Adjoua. After the time of joyful reunion, Adjoua suddenly disappears, leaving Sia with the care of her little daughter Amelan, who suffers from sickle cell anemia.
"Golpe de Suerte" tells the lives of three families from different social classes. First there are the Pérez Flores, who live in Neza and are made up of Ignacio, Julia and their children Ronaldo and Wendy. The second family is made up of Miranda Ortiz and her little son Diego; They live in the Roma neighborhood in the house of César Traven, a generous elderly antiques dealer. And finally there are Brenda Uriarte, her brother Tony, her stepmother Constanza and her stepsister Sabrina, an upper middle class family. Each of these families will experience a radical change in their lives the day they win two hundred million pesos.
Miwa Kubota is a 29-year old movie fanatic who just got fired from her dead-end job. She saw that her favorite actor, the world-renowned Takahashi Yakai, is looking for a housekeeper. Even though she is totally unqualified, she goes there anyway. When she saw the new hire get into an accident outside his door, Miwa steps in to become the "pretend" housekeeper for her idol.
In some faraway place, the Laws and the Chuks are two big families that have been foes for a century as they can never stand each other. In a chance encounter, the Law Family’s fourth son Law Mak-au falls head over heels in love with Chu Lai-yip, who is the younger cousin sister of the Chuk Family’s matriarch Chuk Ying-kiu. Lai-yip already has a finacé. If her marriage eventually falls through, Ying-kiu’s status as the chair will be affected. However, due to some past event about herself, Ying-kiu resolutely decides to let Lai-yip make her own choice, sowing the seeds of a duel between the two families. In the meantime, Leung Shan-pak adopts Max Ton as his name and lives in Hoi Pak City, which is the Law Family’s territory. To avoid assassins, he goes to the Chuk Family’s Tin Nam City and then the mysterious Zone 8. He again runs into two women who were seemingly associated with him.
A young man gets entangled in a kidnap-for-ransom situation. He offers the kidnappers all his hard-earned money to save the victim, believing that her wealthy Filipino-Chinese family could easily repay him, or so he thought.
The scam of the century, which occurred in France and Europe between 2008 and 2009. Billions gone up in smoke on the new financial market of "carbon quotas" invented to fight against global warming. The association of Belleville crooks with a trader from the wealthy neighborhoods, tracked by an obsessive investigator. When human passions are unleashed beyond simple interest.
Based on the investigative book by Fabrice Arfi.
Nandini is a mystery drama that follows a pregnant woman, Snigdha, whose world turns upside down when her doctor tells her to abort the baby who would be stillborn otherwise. At midnight, when everyone is asleep, Snighda’s telephone rings and a child’s voice tells her “Mother! I am not dead, I am still alive!” What happens next forms the crux of the story.
Mingya, a gaming VP, time-travels with a magical chip necklace. Guided by the spiritual realm's "Wanqi," she realizes her college crush, Bei Su, is her mission target.
Meika is the heiress to a massive estate, called the Sanjou Empire. With her high school graduation, she is to marry her bodyguard Akira, and she is starting to think her actual budding romantic feelings are pointing elsewhere, but can that really be true?!
Nagumo Shuuji, a social studies teacher at Mie Prefecture’s Etsuzan Senior High School, was a former baseball player up until university when he quit after sustaining an injury. Thereafter, he worked as a sports trainer but returned to university at 32 years old in order to pursue his dream of becoming a teacher. However, his peaceful daily life goes through a change after he’s appointed to be the advisor of his school’s baseball club that is on the verge of abolition.
Estonia tells the story of the tragic accident of the car-ferry MS Estonia, which deeply shocked the world in the autumn of 1994. Through the moving personal stories of victims, survivors, loved ones and investigators, the eight-part series explores how it is possible that 852 people lost their lives and no one is held accountable.