This drama is adapted from the manga of the same name. It tells the story of a poor detective with keen observation and heavy debts and a girl with the magical ability to distinguish 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 Tsukuma Soma (Eoji Suzuka).), with his encouragement, Kanoko began to face herself, and realized for the first time that this ability could help others...

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...