14-year-old Sunaoko travels from Tokyo to Naha, Okinawa, with her father’s young fiancée Momoko in search of her half-brother whom she has never met. Their guide, a beer-guzzling ex-soldier, takes them to the locale’s tourist attractions, quickly delving into the underlying scars of the island’s wartime history.
Hell manifests itself through the sins, shame and desires of an upper class rural family and a mother's grief from beyond the grave.
An award-winning Japanese film about a child's experiences during the Second World War.
