Arquivo / 49ª mostra

Ai Kawase is a widow in her seventies living in Tokyo with her granddaughter Natsuki. One day, the municipal authorities announce that her daughter Miwa, declared missing 24 years earlier, with not a trace, is, in actual fact, living close to, but under a different name, Masako Onoue. She is amnesic. Only one word echoes in her memory: Hiroshima. After this unexpected re-encounter, Ai, Masako and Natsuki visit the city razed to the ground by the atom bomb. Amid hushed tension and emotion, marked by suffering and by reminiscence, the three women attempt to reconstruct their story. The film goes beyond the limits of mere family drama, for it broaches an issue that is broader: Japan and pain, voiceless since the country surrendered in World War II.