在这部蔷薇的十字架片中,瞄准争议颇大的单身女性“未婚生子”的社会现象，由天海佑希、三上博史领衔诠释；藉由戏剧来反映社会现象，是日剧一贯勇于尝试的模式，不过也因问题过于尖锐，剧中人物多陷于无奈的泥淖之中，由于该剧被安排在深夜时段，加上天海、三上的邂逅属“不伦”情节，两人之间将有不少情欲场景上演，很有“失乐园”的味道。
单身女性“未婚生子”以及“代理孕母”等话题，在日本社会公议中尚处浑沌状态，但是日剧的取材，遂直接将这类问题搬上台面，而剧情则着重过程的剖析与主人翁的心路历程，结局也多以戏剧性来处理；“蔷薇的十字架”中，三上饰演某知名广告公司的高级主管，和母亲、妻子同住，原本过着平静的生活的他，某天遇见在外资电脑公司上班的高畑晓－天海佑希，仅是初相识的两人，高畑晓－天海佑希就迳自表白，“我只想要孩子，不要结婚、也不要你的钱，更不希望和你有任何牵扯，我只要你帮忙给个小孩。”三上答应了这样的请求，高畑晓－天海佑希顺利怀了孕，不过这件事却让三上的妻子得知，一男两女之间的纠葛情事于是展开。
In the prime of his career as a TV ad director, Togo finds himself at a crossroads. His wife Sumiko hasn't given him any children, and because of it his mother Sae berates her mentally for this by giving her baby presents almost everyday, whether she likes it or not. One day he meets a woman called Aki whom he mistakenly takes for a model his right-hand man Kyosuke wanted to meet for another commercial. Aki is really a career woman living with her divorced mother Yuriko and younger sister Masami, who is married and has a daughter of her own. Due to her parents' divorce, as well as a traumatic experience when she was younger, she doesn't trust men at all. Her proposal to Togo, "I don't want a relationship with you, to get married to you, or even you giving me money. All I want is for you to help me have a child," seems shocking to him. But as the problems at home and at work bear down on him, and seeing the danger Aki puts herself in contacting other men who reject her proposal, Togo ...
淤伤着。
