Mizuki is worried about her grandad, he is very depressed.
She can't figure out what's wrong until he tells her of the day Hiroshima dropped and his life changed completely.
Ichiro lost his best friend Hiro and also got separated from Hiro's little sister Keiko.
Haunted by this all his life he lives with the failure of his promise to look after her.
To try and find her he tore pages from his father's book and left origami paper cranes throughout the city hoping she would find one and lead her to him.
This is a tragic and heart-rending story's of the effects of war on the people closest to it in this case children who grow up haunted by the past.
Everyone should read this, it's a moving account of a terrible time in the world's history.
She can't figure out what's wrong until he tells her of the day Hiroshima dropped and his life changed completely.
Ichiro lost his best friend Hiro and also got separated from Hiro's little sister Keiko.
Haunted by this all his life he lives with the failure of his promise to look after her.
To try and find her he tore pages from his father's book and left origami paper cranes throughout the city hoping she would find one and lead her to him.
This is a tragic and heart-rending story's of the effects of war on the people closest to it in this case children who grow up haunted by the past.
Everyone should read this, it's a moving account of a terrible time in the world's history.