Japan
A young female teacher takes a trip back to her hometown four years after the atomic bomb explosion and encounters the aftermath of history's most heinous act. The city is in the process of being rebuilt but much physical devastation remains.
Mostly though she deals with the human wreckage left behind...the former students she once taught and their families...who have been left with radiation sickness, disfigured bodies, sterility, etc. It's a heartbreaking display of the madness of war.
Of course this is a polemic but who can argue with its premises? Only the mad or the inhuman would ever advocate perpetrating another such atrocity...and the recent book Command and Control is a dismaying reminder that there is no shortage of those eager for just that. Who can believe in a long term hope for mankind?
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