Chan-woo, who has been studying to become a police officer for 5 years, joins his friends for dinner to ask for the money to apply for his exam and ends up getting drunk. He completely blacks out and wakes up not remembering what happened in his next door neighbor's room. Not only that, he finds a bloody corpse in the middle of the room. He hurries back to his room and tries to report the incident but he had forgotten his phone in the other room. But the door is locked and he has to resort to using a rope to swing to the next door room outside the window. Once the phone is recovered, he cannot go back because of a group of cultists who are evangelizing the neighbors in the hallway. He knows it’s the last day to apply for his exam and gets antsy as time is running out.

田力（柳云龙）与舒心（袁立）在南京念高中时便互相倾心，只是碍于学业均没将爱意说出。高考后，田力来到北京念书，舒心留在南京上了医科大学，封封书信往来中，两人均暗将对方视作未来伴侣。大学毕业田力又考取研究生，某次在外考察时他匆匆赶回南京向舒心求婚，舒心自是心甜如蜜，两人结婚。后来，田力为救一支金丝猴摔成重伤变作植物人。当家人、朋友都劝舒心另做打算时，她却坚信田力会好起来，怀着悲痛开始以巨大的爱心和耐力将他贴心照料。

成濑巳喜男反映乡村家庭伦理之作。寡居乡间多年的八重（淡岛千景 饰），同家中的哥哥一起，为下一辈子女的工作和婚姻事务四下奔波。但年轻人却各自有着自己的想法，向往现代生活而不愿继续安守着祖上的田地，对父辈安排的婚姻也有保留，令长者心力交瘁。八重与一位已婚记者悉心地照顾着侄辈 ，妥善地处理好两代人的冲突纠纷，在这一过程中，两人情愫渐生，彼此隐约地珍存着这份超出友谊的恋情。末了，八重在对方选择逃避后冷静地克制住自己的感情，而哥哥对后辈的选择虽不以为然，却是无可奈何，卖出了耕作多年的田地后，也只能徒然感慨时代的无情变化。

电影版非电视剧版的续作，而是讲述剧版世界的平行故事，新婚夫妇菜奈（原田知世 饰）和翔太（田中圭 饰）搬入公寓两年后，邀请邻居们参加他们在游轮上办的婚宴，不料在无处可逃的游轮上发生了连续杀人事件，每个人在试图解决案件时，却触发了意想不到的杀意……