A dark melodrama about a woman whose life descends into a downward spiral due to love, ill fate and recklessness. It's 2006. The dead body of 56-year old Kawajiri Matsuko, is found in a downtown apartment where she lived alone. Asuka is surprised that she had an aunt by the name of Matsuko. Her father tells Asuka to clean up Matsuko's place. In Matsuko's trash-filled room, Asuka discovers a photograph.Why did someone, surrounded by her family looking so happy, have to be killed? Asuka starts to follow Matsuko's life. It's 1973. After graduating from a national university, Matsuko became a junior high school teacher. During a school trip, she covered up for a student who was caught stealing. But she suffered disgrace for her actions and was expelled from school. Driven into a corner, Matsuko choked her physically weak sister Kumi to death and fled from the house she was born and brought up in. Matsuko's father, Kozo, always doted on Kumi while he was severely strict with Matsuko. However, this was just the beginning of the downfall of a woman named Matsuko Kawajiri. 向地狱要求天堂。太善良？抑或太不坚强？。真正的悲伤没有眼泪。人生是一张桌子 上面放满了杯具。平凡又悲惨的一生。嫌われ松子の一生。玫瑰中迎接灿烂的笑容!。性格决定命运。。给女人的课本。 因为包庇学生的偷窃行为，善良的川尻松子（内山理名 饰）丢掉了工作，之后，她开始了和作家男友八女川彻也（荻原圣人 饰）的同居生活，事业遭遇败北生活又落入了低谷的彻也最终选择了自杀。彻也的朋友冈野健夫（谷原章介 饰）成为了松子的下一个男朋友，但已有妻室的健夫选择了家庭而抛弃了松子。 虽然一次又一次的遭到背叛，但乐观的松子却并没有打消脑海里对男人留存的美好幻想，可是，幸运之神并没有因此而眷顾她，因为一起情杀，松子被判入狱。出狱后，松子遇见了曾经的学生龙洋一（要润 饰），尽管昔日翩翩少年如今已沦为赌徒，但松子还是义无返顾的和他在一起了，这一次，松子能够遇到生命中那个对的人吗？
