Silent Poor ·サイレント・プア
Silent poor... the poor and needy whose cries for help are drowned out in today's busling society. Their existence is spreading rapidly across the nation, and as such, the government decided to set up a body to help them. Nationwide, there are now people called Community Social Workers (CSW), and their jobs are to attend to the poor and needy. One such person is Satomi Ryo, and she works at the Shitamachi area's Council of Welfare. The people that she meets in her busy working life are people afflicted with juvenile dementia, those who have shunned society and locked themselves up in their rooms, the homeless... generally people who are in despair over life and the fate dealt to them. Ryo herself had been down the lonely road before, and as a way to pull herself out of her depression, she decided to work as a CSW, in order to help others like her. She strongly believes that one can always start all over again, and it is her belief that helps her to move forward in life.
- Created By
Atsuko Sagara
- First Aired on
Apr 08, 2014
- Popularity: 9.5721
- 0 votes
- Networks
- (JP)
- Status: Ended
Show Ended
1 seaons till Jun 03, 2014
Last episode: Final: I Won't Let Go of This Hand
Seasons & episodes
Total 1 seasons, 9 episodes
Season 1
Aired
Episode 1I Won't Let This Hand Go48 min
Young Satomi Ryo works as a CSW (Community Service Worker) for her local Social Welfare Agency. Her job is to seek out those in her community who are calling out for help for the problems they face but who aren't able to make themselves known. Along with the rookie Miwa Minaka at her side, she'll help out anyone in trouble right to the end, even if it means battling her own Agency to do so. But Ryo's reason for not letting go of the hand she holds out to those silent poor may be due to a secret from her past.
Episode 2A Family's Sun48 min
Ryo works with a new CSW worker to try and help a family who is been suffering from multiple, overlapping problems. While Ryo struggles to help the family with their issues and keep them together, those issues nevertheless threaten to pull them apart. But if Ryo and new worker Hara can only get the family's son to come out of the room he has shut himself away in, there may be some hope for all of them.
Episode 3The Last Happiness48 min
Ryo comes to the aid of a homeless man who is caught breaking into the apartment he had lived in at one time. The man rebuffs her efforts to help, but Ryo is nothing but determined in her efforts; particularly when she finds out the man may have some relatives. In the course of helping that man out however, she also comes to learn a shocking secret from Section Chief Yamakura.
Episode 4A Mother's Song48 min
Ryo's friend and Welfare Officer Keiko's mother is experiencing premature dementia, frustrating Keiko, especially since she still has bitter memories of her mother abandoning her as a child. Now her mother has suddenly wandered off with Keiko's daughter, and the search for them brings those old memories back once more. In the meantime, the other CSW workers try to persuade Eta-san from being taken in by a corrupt contractor.
Episode 530 Years of Loneliness48 min
Ryo and the other CSW workers have started a cafe salon to give those who have withdrawn from society a chance to talk together. This surprisingly brings in the otherwise irritable Neighborhood Council Chief Sonomura, who it turns out has a request for Ryo. Seems his son has been just like one of those men at the salon for nearly 30 years now.
