NHK的第59部晨间剧。明治时期，三代造船人的第二个女儿，出生于大阪的水岛渚（小西美帆）。”人生不断跌倒再不断爬起来的“，高中退学后，她当过记者和设计师。 在生活中也经历了许多困难，包括家族的经营困难，与初恋情人大庭高志（高桥和也）结婚后又离婚，之后与资深报社记者木暮勇（利久重）的第二次婚姻中经历了丧子之痛。但渚仍然积极乐观，以自由和充满活力的方式追求幸福。

The 59th NHK Asadora Drama is Yanchakure. Location includes Osaka. In Osaka, "yanchakure" is a bit of an old word which is used to describe tomboyish or mischievous young girls. Mizushima Nagisa happens to be such a girl, that, no matter how well-intentioned her motives nor how hard she tries, Nagisa just seems to end up failing. In fact, she has failed at different things in her life so many times that she has come to see it as a source of personal strength, her philosophy being one of, "It's natural for a human being to fail many times in the course of their life and thanks to those failures we can become adults."

明治時代から三代続く造船所の次女として大阪に生まれた水嶋渚(小西美帆)。「人生、何度でもやり直しがきくんや」を合言葉に、高校中退後、記者やデザイナーなどさまざまな職業を経験しながら、たくましく人生を切り開いていく。実家の経営難、初恋の相手・大庭高志(高橋和也)との結婚と離婚、新聞記者の先輩・木暮 勇(利重 剛)との再婚と死別など、人生の苦渋を何度も味わいながらも、渚は前向きに自由闊達(かったつ)に幸せを追い求めていく。