富田多满子(新垣结衣 饰)的母亲是一名十分优秀的乒乓球运动员,在母亲的严厉教导下,多满子的整个童年都在天才乒乓球少女的荣光之下度过。然而,多满子却并不是真心喜爱这项运动,于是,母亲过世后,她便彻底放飞了自我,就此远离了球桌。 随着时间的推移,多满子平凡的长大成为了一名OL,并且遇见了名为江岛晃彦(濑户康史 饰)的男子,两人走到了一起。然而,美梦是短暂的,第三者的出现让多满子和江岛之间的恋情画上了句号,与此同时,多满子辞掉了工作,灰头土脸的返回家乡,在那里,母亲留下的经营不善的乒乓球俱乐部等待着她的接手。Tamiko used to be a very good ping pong player as a child, but she is now twenty-eight years old and left the sport behind. Her mother Hanako had taught her how to play imposing discipline and regimen, but following the former's death the daughter had felt free by quitting the sport and instead leading an ordinary life. One of her co-workers Akihiko asks her to go steady one day, but soon sleeps with a pretty co-worker called Airi. Having lost her chance with this man she quits her job and returns to her hometown. Here her mother once owned a ping pong club. At the same time, the man she lost has joined the company's ping pong club prompting her to want to beat him. She begins to practice again.