At the end of the Tokugawa shogunate, the lower samurai of the Kaisaka Domain, Katagiri Sozo (played by Masatoshi Nagase), his mother (played by Chieko Beshiro), his sister Shino (played by Tomoko Tahata), and the maid Nozomi (played by Takako Matsu) lived a poor but happy life. After her mother's death, her sister married Sozo's friend Shimada Samon (