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Nine years after the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, two murder cases take place in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture. The two victims are assumed to have been murdered by the same person. Both of the victims were tied all over their body and starved to death. Yasuhisa Tone emerges as a suspect in the murders. Yasuhisa was just recently released from prison. In his past, he committed arson and injured someone to protect his acquaintance. Detective Seiichiro Tomashino discovers a common link between the two victims and chases after Yasuhisa.

When high school student Tomura Naoki met piano tuner Itadori Soichiro at his school in Hokkaido, he could smell the forest from the piano tuned by Soichiro. Touched, the boy decides to work together with Soichiro at his musical instruments store. Naoki develops relationships with many people related to the piano and he meets sister pianists and high school students Kazune and Yuni.

65-year-old Tsutomu Muso has retired from his job at a major home appliance manufacturer. He was a corporate warrior who did not care for his family during those 43 years that he was working. He has no particular hobbies and his intention was to lead retirement life leisurely at home. However, reality is not so kind. His wife Sachiko, who has been living life to the fullest, is busy every day with enrichment lessons and socializing with friends. Considering Tsutomu a nuisance, she haughtily tells him to do something since he is free. After their divorced daughter Miyako moves back home with their one-year- old granddaughter Yurina, he becomes Yurina's caregiver because Miyako is extremely busy as the division head at a big corporation. Tsutomu realizes that he has no place in the house. Then one day, Miyako gets chosen to be the deputy chairwoman of the elementary school's Parent Teacher Association. Everyone shuns PTA committee members and the deputy chairwoman is an excessively hectic role. Miyako is already extremely busy and declines. This results in Yurina getting hurt. Tsutomu gets worked up and protests, but Sachiko suggests in a family meeting that he take their daughter's place as PTA deputy chairman. So on the day of the first PTA meeting, Tsutomu introduces himself to Junko Uchida who is also a deputy chairwoman and the other PTA members and quickly causes an uproar.