Synopsis

Seventy years after the bombing of Hiroshima, a wave of inherited belongings has washed over survivors' families: garments worn on that fateful day, journals, and countless other fragments of the past. For some, this legacy is newly encountered, prompting a desire to preserve these tangible links to history. This year, Arei Shirakami, age forty-one, first read the diary of her grandfather, who passed away seventeen years ago. The entries revealed a previously unknown dimension of his life. A pan