The Need

The drama tells the stories of men and woman whose love has worn off. Matsuo Ryo works at a gardening company. He thinks women are annoying. At a client's office, he meets Satogawa Akane who works as a CEO's secretary. She is admired by the male employees due to her attractiveness and smarts, but, due to a bad experience, she is not interested in finding love. She only has sex with married men. A new male employee, Kinosaki Haruto, approaches Akane. One evening, Matsuo Ryo's boss asks him if he is interested in marrying his daughter Tanno Ayaka and eventually taking over the gardening company. But, Ryo is embarrassed by the suggestion. He views Ayaka as a sister. Meanwhile, Ayaka works at a construction site during the day but works at a girl's bar at night. She has lost her sexual identity. While working at the girl's bar, female customer Kuroda Azusa approaches Ayaka.

The story of Ambitions is an exaggerated parable of the globalized society and how that affects us all.

After breaking up one year into their relationship, Dide and Hauwa decide to continue living together in their Lagos apartment until their lease ends. Navigating the challenges of cohabitation and unresolved emotions, they find that moving on is harder than they anticipated.

In the Far Eastern village of Chernovka, surrounded by taiga and swamps, an emergency occurs: a sawmill burns down, and in the morning, bodies charred beyond recognition are found there. A young investigator, Evgeniya Rakitina, arrives from the regional center. Local authorities and the villagers themselves are trying in every way to hush up the case, writing it off as an accident, but Evgeniya's professional instincts tell her that something is fishy here. And the deeper the heroine delves into this case, the more she understands: the people here are connected to each other by more than just family ties. Having compared the testimonies of witnesses, she concludes that she will have to look for the solution to the mystery in the past.