Suzu Urano is an innocent young woman who loves to draw pictures and lives in the seaside town called Eba district of Hiroshima. At the height of World War II in the Pacific with all the men off at the front, she finds herself as eldest daughter assisting with the family business of seaweed to make ends meet when an offer of marriage arises. The suitor is Shusaku Hojo, a young stenographer at the military court-martial who had fallen in love with her at first sight, but Suzu doesn’t remember ever having met him. Though uncomfortable with the idea of betrothing a man she doesn’t know, she gets swept along by the people and circumstances around her until marriage becomes a foregone conclusion. She finds the task of winning acceptance by Shusaku’s family hard going despite all of her pure and earnest efforts in this touching story of family love and survival amid the crucible of war.


히로시마시 에바에 사는 스즈는 조용한 성격에 그림 그리는 것을 좋아하는 젊은 여성 이다. 태평양전쟁이 한창일때, 김농사로 생계를 꾸리는 우라노 집안의 장녀 스즈에게 어느날 혼담이 오간다. 상대는 쿠레시에서 군법회의 서기를 하고 있다는 청년 호죠 슈 사쿠. 예전 스즈를 보고 첫눈에 반했다고 하는데 스즈는 슈사쿠를 만난 기억이 없다. 전혀 모르는 남자와의 결혼이 전혀 실감이 나지 않지만 주변의 성화에 우왕좌왕하는 사이 혼례가 결정된다. 결혼후에도 스즈는 슈사쿠의 집안에 쉽게 받아들여지지 못하고 순진무구한 스즈는 애를 먹는다. 점차 격화되는 전쟁속에서 열심히 살아가는 가족의 사랑을 그린 이야기.


生活在廣島市江波的小鈴是一個温和善良的姑娘，最大的愛好就是畫畫。太平洋戰爭中，以製作紫菜維持生計的浦野家長女、小鈴，有一天有一家父子來向她提親。對方是在吳市做軍法會議錄事的年輕男子、北條周作。他說是以前見過小鈴而且一見鍾情，但小鈴並沒有見過他的記憶。與素不相識的男人結婚，雖然稍微感覺不對勁，不過在周圍的安排下終於嫁了出去。因結婚後也難被娘家人接受，這讓純真単純的小鈴感到辛苦。在戰爭逐漸激化下，努力活下去的家族的愛的故事。

This is the story of a woman who responds to an abused girl's silent cries of help. Nao, an aloof 30-something woman who works reluctantly as an elementary school teacher, notices the unmistakable bruises on her first grade pupil Rena. Initially, like everyone else, Nao looks the other way. But Rena's wretched desperation soon awakens a passion and determination in Nao. Together they skip town and embark on a risky journey pretending to be mother and child. "Mother" is the story of the transformation of a once disenchanted woman who suddenly takes on the role of a parent to a child who is starved for maternal love. The drama probes into the meaning of motherhood in modern society.