【Story】

The story is based on my mother's memory of surviving the bombing of Hiroshima 1945.
In the film, as a wartime precaution, 
Yukiko evacuates her parent's home in Tokyo to the seclusion of Hiroshima,
where she lives with her grandfather, the mayor, and her beautiful Aunt.
On August 6, the bomb drops.  Yukiko and her grandfather are unharmed as the house
is far from ground zero; her aunt is pulled from the ruins downtown,
and returned to Yukiko's care.
Now the real battle in Hiroshima begins.
The surviving citizens of Hiroshima cannot accept the surrender; the grandfather,
as he plans his daughter's burial, must decide if he can "drink the tear"
(yield, swallow an insult), and abide the demands of the occupying American Army.

I believe this is the spirit so desperately needed in the world right now.