The protagonist, Miharu Mochizuki (27), is a young photographer. She won a prize in a competition a few years ago, which got her noticed. However, the only job she has now is shooting flyers for a supermarket. As he struggles to come to terms with the harsh reality of his life, a chance brings him back to his hometown of Toyohashi.
Chocky is a 1984 children's television drama based on the 1968 novel by John Wyndham and was broadcast on ITV in the United Kingdom. Two sequels were produced. All were written by Anthony Read and produced by Thames Television. The series was also broadcast and popular in Czechoslovakia - both dubbings were made.
While the 1968 novel was set in an unspecified 'near future', the TV adaptation was set contemporaneously in the mid-1980s. The Gore family acquire a second generation Citroen CX car which was marketed as being technologically advanced at the time.
In 2008, a Jiaodong Peninsula family’s demolition windfall uncovers decades of dysfunction. Patriach Sai Duoxi controls his five children—from the spineless eldest to the adopted youngest—until cancer shakes his authority. As they confront moral bonds, the family realizes love thrives on equality, not patriarchal power.
Before dying, Raghuveer tells his daughters, Preeta and Shrishti, about their sisters, Pragya and Bulbul, who stay with Sarla in Mumbai. Later, Preeta and Shrishti come to Mumbai to look for Sarla.
Wang Wen Xuan is an idealistic and good-natured man living during a tumultuous period in China. He's in love with his classmate Zeng Shu Sheng, but his traditional mother wants him to marry a girl of her choosing. In the midst of war and the inevitable tension of the times, Wen Xuan is frequently torn between Shu Sheng and his mother. To make things worse, his health slowly begins to deteriorate after contracting tuberculosis.