仙修奇才苏易水（邓为 饰），在十八年前被师父沐清歌（向涵之 饰）改变天命，一向离经叛道的“女魔头”沐清歌也为此背负污名死去。十八年后，沐清歌化为薛冉冉，而已继任西山派掌门的苏易水将体弱濒死的冉冉收入门下，誓要护她一世周全，自此师徒身份对调互换，两人之间会发生哪些啼笑皆非的故事呢？
故事讲述了运河边长大的年轻人从花街到北京，在度过了他们青涩纯真的青春时光，也经历了积极而艰难的北上创业时期，当荣耀或失败都已成为过往之际，他们再次重归运河边的花街，寻找真实自我和人生意义的故事。 该剧改编自作家徐则臣的同名小说，原著曾荣获2019年第十届茅盾文学奖。
Marco (Mario Casas) is a young businessman who manages one of the most successful technological companies in the world, ALVA, which has just launched its latest prototype into the market - CYCLONE, an electric car propelled by turbines that turn wind into energy. His friend and classmate Diego works with him, along with the latter's wife, Bárbara, the efficient marketing manager of the company. Eva, a young, ambitious engineer who has a lot to hide, also joins the team, and she will disrupt the balance at work, both emotionally and professionally, between the two business partners. In spite of being a popular guy, Marco, unlike Diego, doesn't have an exciting social life. He is a solitary man, and no one has access to the intimacy of his soul, apart from his psychologist, SARA, on whom he is emotionally dependent. Marco is haunted by a huge number of ghosts from his past and, although he tries hard to scare them away, he only finds comfort in sport and in frequenting a private club. People go there just to get pleasure and give free reign to their wildest erotic fantasies, without fear of falling in love, as everyone has to wear a mask to hide their faces. But everything changes when Marco meets Carol, the new educational psychologist who looks after his brother José, an 18-year-old boy with problems of autism, with whom he has a difficult relationship. With her, he will also meet his worst enemy - himself. Thanks to her, he will discover that it is never too late to love, even if it brings some pain along with it.
1949年初，大批以农村干部为主的解放军部队进入城市。马安山和乔梁是一对异姓兄弟，从小一起长大的富家子弟乔梁对自己奶妈的儿子马安山有救命之恩，两人情同手足。上级任命马安山为临江军管会主任，乔梁为副主任。接管城市后的共产党干部们面临着如何从革命党转为执政党的严峻考验。马安山和乔梁这两个城市管理者产生了冲突。在经历一系列挫折后，马安山在实践中得到了成长。然而城市的稳定，经济的发展造成腐败滋长。总想用自己的才华为国家建功立业的乔梁，一直为自己生活在哥哥马安山阴影下感到沮丧。他在纠结和挣扎之中走向堕落和腐化。乔梁被绳之于法，新城临江也在风雨中重获新生。这是一次血的教训，是在我们党的全新政权建立之初，值得执政者们警醒的城市之路。
因为偷税事件，曾经处于精英组的百合根友久（冈田将生 饰）被踢到早先成立的科学搜查班（ST）担任指挥官，通过之前的合作，虽然百合根始终未能完全接受青山翔（志田未来 饰）、结城翠（芦名星 饰）、黑崎勇治（漥田正孝 饰）、山吹才藏（三宅弘城 饰）以及ST实际领导者赤城左门（藤原龙也 饰）这群怪人的行径，却也为他们自身那极度专业和见斥于周遭的气息所感染。百合根一面盼望早日回到搜查一课，一面又打算多守护ST的各位一段时间。随着作为后盾的三枝警官（渡部笃郎 饰）的离开和ST新任监查松户紫织（濑户朝香 饰）的到来，ST面临生死存亡的危机。赤门渐渐走出家门，百合根则成为遏止这头怪物不可或缺的重要存在…… 本片根据今野敏的原作改编。
