A year and a half after a strong earthquake and the pandemic starting, tenants from the damaged old city center move to the outskirts of the city. Tensions rise between people irritated by their own differences and by change.
The story unfolds in a small coastal town where a wife's world shatters when her husband's body is found dead on the beach. Facing intense public scrutiny and suspicion, she must stand alone against the storm of adversity to protect her family's fragile peace. As layers of the townspeople's hidden truths begin to unravel, her journey reveals the dark undercurrents beneath the community's tranquil surface. Through this crucible of grief and betrayal, she discovers an extraordinary wellspring of resilience within herself - a redemptive strength that transforms victim into warrior, proving the human spirit's astonishing capacity for survival and rebirth.
Three women, three stories, one friendship. In “Old Friends”, we follow the conflicts of Lurdinha, Violeta and Maria Antonia. Their story take place in the present day and in the past, between 1970’s – 2018.
A unique drama that contrasts the lives of a family of elite salarymen in Tokyo and a family of landowners in Tokorozawa, Saitama, while exploring the timeless themes of drama such as human happiness, love and marriage in their everyday lives, told in a straightforward narrative style.