Takada Yu is an employee of a development firm. His father has favored his high-achieving older brother and been indifferent to Yu since young. So Yu craves for his father’s love and wants his recognition somehow. Then one day, Yu encounters a woman. Although it was the worst possible meeting, he gradually starts to have romantic feelings for her through work and an unexpected development. But ironically enough, she turns out to be the girlfriend of his older brother. Yu begins to realize what he truly treasures and matures as a person as he struggles with this complicated romance and with his older brother and father.
月9ドラマ『カインとアベル』は、旧約聖書「創世記」第4章に登場する兄弟の名前をタイトルにした作品。旧約聖書の「カインとアベル」とは、兄のカインが、神・ヤハウェ(=すべての父)から寵愛を受ける弟のアベルに嫉妬し、“愛への渇望”、“父に認められたい”という普遍的なテーマが描かれている物語だ。
“運命的な兄弟”の姿を描く「カインとアベル」が2016年秋、“月9”でよみがえる!
高田貴行(高島政伸飾)是高田綜合地產公司的董事長,他有兩個兒子高田優(山田涼介飾)和高田隆一(桐谷健太飾),兩人目前都在公司中任職。表面看來,優和隆一是感情十分要好的兄弟,但兩人之間的隔閡,卻因為父親的冷漠和偏袒而愈演愈烈。貴行一直將隆一視為自己唯一的接班人,對其照拂有加,這讓同樣想得到父親重視的優心裡很不是滋味。
與此同時,隆一優秀的品質和強悍的工作能力更讓優覺得相形見絀,在長輩們面前抬不起頭來。某日,優在公司派對上意外結識了名為矢作梓(倉科加奈飾)的女性,她剛剛被調來本部工作。在矢作梓的開導和鼓勵之下,優漸漸找回了自信,亦對這個善良的女孩產生了愛慕之情,可很快,優就絕望的發現,矢作梓竟然成為了隆一的未婚妻。