在正和从食品公司辞职后一年，接替前辈正和的山岸（太贺饰）身兼区域经理和“鸡肉百姓”的店长两职，每天都很忙，不过，他做事仍然我行我素，活得悠然自得。某天，为接受电视剧《宽松世代又如何》的编剧采访，山岸作为宽松世代的代表造访电视台。对于其他参加者的发言他嗤之鼻，还说了他自己起诉同事的事情，让制作人和编剧听得津津有味。助理制作人须藤冬美（佐津川爱美饰）奉上司的命令，对山岸进行补充采访。冬美憧憬着由此完成由自己策划的电视剧，干劲儿十足，为了搜集素材她和山岸开始交往。

A young samurai stuck at the bottom of the hierarchical order attempts to rescue his childhood sweetheart from an evil clan lord after learning of a plot to kill her and her infant child. Bunshiro Maki is a skilled swordfighter who's lethal with a blade, yet still can't rise through the ranks of the system. After his father is accused of plotting against his clan and forced to commit ritual suicide, his longtime love Fuku is sent to Edo to become the clan lord's concubine. A few years later, Fuku has bore the clan lord a son. When Maki learns that the clan has hatched a plan to kill Fuku and her son to secure succession to the throne, he recruits two childhood friends to help thwart the diabolical plot.