A Polish-Japanese co-production with a pacifist message.
A drama that goes back to World War II and love which falls victim to demons of the past. The authors of the film wanted to protest against the cruelty of war, but also to show common experience of the Polish and Japanese people by drawing analogies between the Nazi concentration camps and dropping atomic bombs on the Japanese cities. The film features documentary photos from Auschwitz, the Warsaw Uprising and Hiroshima.
A young Japanese doctor – Nobito suffers from radiation sickness, which revealed itself many years after the disaster of Hiroshima. In the last moments of his life the dying doctor remembers the most important events of his life. Many years ago Nobito dated a Polish student Krystyna in Paris. When she told him she was pregnant, he panicked, fearing the child may be born sick. Krystyna who didn’t understand his reaction, broke up with him. Nobito couldn’t find her. He returned to Japan where he lived an ordinary life until he was diagnosed with radiation sickness. Hallucinating before his death, Nobito sees himself with Krystyna and their healthy son.
