This drama is adapted from the manga of the same name. It tells the story of a poor detective who has keen observation and is heavily in debt, and a girl who has the magical ability to tell lies in Kujuya Town in the early Showa era. This unique pair solves lies and“ truth ” intertwined difficult cases, and at the same time, a mystery love story in which feelings gradually develop between each other.

Kanoko Urabe (Honoka Matsumoto) who can hear other people’s lies) was ostracized by the villagers and left his hometown.She always thought that this ability would bring misfortune until she met Detective Tsuyoma Tsukuru (Eoji Suzuka).), with his encouragement, Kanoko began to face herself, and realized for the first time that this ability could help others...

Episode 1

Urabe Kanoko (Honoka Matsumoto), who lives in the countryside, has the ability to discern human lies as long as she can remember.

However, because of this ability, she is alienated from the rest of the village.Although her mother Urabe Fumi (Mayumi Wakamura) protected Kanoko, Kanoko decided to leave the village in order not to cause trouble to her mother.

The place where Kanoko came was Kujyuye Town.People here communicate with lies.Despite this, in search of a job, Kanoko came to the cafe “Rose” which had a “urgent recruitment notice for a waitress”.However, the waitress Lily (Eri Murakawa) told her that a new employee had just been decided.

At this time, Tsuyoma Suzuka (Eoji Suzuka), who opened the "Suzuka Detective Agency", took his close friend Kaoru Hazaki (Ryosuke Ajigata) who is a police officer to clean the Inari Shrine.Faced with Duanzaki's doubts about why the police were asked to help, Zuoma replied that it was related to people's life and death.In fact, the landlord of the office that Uuma rents also manages Inari Shrine, and he came to help with the cleaning in order to reduce the rent.

When Uma and Tasaki arrived at the shrine, they heard moans like wild dogs and a woman's "Don't come here" sound.They entered the bushes where there was movement and saw Kanoko having a quarrel with a cat.It turns out she was trying to protect the kitten from being attacked by the dog.At this time, due to hunger, Kanoko fainted.Tasaki took the fainted Kanoko to the small restaurant "Kurata's House" run by Kurata Tatsuo (Okura Koji) and Kurata Yoshie (Isoyama Sayaka).There, Kanoko overreacted to lies told by Taro (Shibuya Soji), the son of the Kurata family...

Episode 2

Urabe Kanoko (Honoka Matsumoto), who has the ability to detect lies, is alienated and disgusted by the people around her. Her mother Fushimi (Mayumi Wakamura) also stayed in her hometown, and she embarked on the journey alone.The place we arrived at was a place called Kujyuya Town.Kanoko, who fell to the ground due to hunger, was rescued by a man named Susuma (Eoji Suzuka) who ran a detective agency.Kanoko originally wanted to hide her abilities and continue living, but after knowing the truth, Soma, who was not surprised, invited her to become a detective assistant.At this time, Uma accepted the request from everyone in the office to deliver something to the Fujishima family, so he went with Kanoko.

After arriving at Fujishima's house, their wife Yukino (Sakurai Junko) gently welcomed them both.Then, with a call, the daughter of the Fujishima family appeared.She was Chiyo (Yuki Katayama) who scolded the two of them in the car where she had a quarrel with Souma and Kanoko a few days ago.Both parties were taken aback, but Chiyo, who was addicted to detective novels, saw the appearance of the two of them and immediately concluded that they were poor people, and pointed fingers at Yukino unceremoniously.

At this time, the Fujishima family's driver Kokichi (Miyazaki Akito) appeared holding Chiyo's shoes.Chiyo took the shoes and planned to go to the theater alone, but Yukino insisted that Kokichi drive her.After Chiyo left, Yukino told the detective, Souma, that he had something to ask for.After the horses nodded, the head of the house Yukihiro (Tetsuta Sugimoto) appeared.Yukihiro showed Souma a piece of toilet paper that had been stuffed into the entrance door. It said "Fujishima Yukihiro, I hate you so much, don't forget".When Yukihiro said that the prisoner was distressed, a woman rushed in with new toilet paper.It was written on the toilet paper, “We have kidnapped Chiyo. If we want her to return safely, we must prepare the money...”