Kana Aoyama (Matsuyuki Yasuko) is a 38 year old TV reporter for CTN. Kana is known for being stubborn & inflexible, but passionate for uncovering the truth. After doggedly pursuing an unsolved case for 15 years she is then assigned to lead a ragtag team of second line reporters.
Her team includes reporter Hiroshi Shiraishi (Kohinata Fumiyo) who constantly receives complaints from his interviewees, TV announcer Midori Okusawa (Aibu Saki) who once misread read a news report and landed herself here, Shu Akasaka (Koide Keisuke) a news reporter interested in only political aspects of news stories, cameraman Isao Koda (Kaname Jun) who pretends to be a movie director, Ken Shimura (Koyanagi Yu) a camera assistant who rarely touches the camera and AD Yu Momoi (Endo Yuya) who is easily persuaded & manipulated by those around him.
Their first assignment is to cover seals who have reappeared in the Tama River. Kana, however, is interested in the Prime Minister who stood up the U.S. Secretary of State for a prearranged meeting. What did the Prime Minister do during his disappearance? Kana looks at the footage of the Prime Minister prior to his disappearance and once he reappeared in public. She notices something that no one else has. Kana then announces her team will focus on the Prime Minister's disappearance. This raises the scorn of her subordinates and her team is now viewed as nuisance by others ... |