Imai Fukuko (Ando Sakura), the youngest of three sisters (Uchida Yuki, Matsushita Nao), grew up in a poor family but received a lot of love. She is a born optimist and loves eating. Because their father died early, she starts to work as a hotel’s telephone switchboard operator to support the family after graduating from a school for girls. Some incident leads to her encounter with her future husband Tachibana Manpei (Hasegawa Hiroki). The two of the eventually get married but Fukuko keeps getting pushed around by Manpei who develops businesses with unconventional ideas. At first, she only tolerates this, but she soon supports him and begins to grow into a strong woman. And then, the couple produce a great invention of the century which changes global food culture. |