GRÜSSE AUS FUKUSHIMA

Marie, unlucky in life and love, joins the organization Clowns4Help and travels to Fukushima. There, to­geth­e­r with the clown Moshe, she wants to bring some joy into the lives of the survivors of the triple disaster of 2011 (earthquake, tsunami and radiation leak) who are still living, years on, in emergency accommodation. Unfortun­ately Marie soon discovers she is not at all cut out for the task. But before she runs away again she decides to stay with, of all people, the stubborn old woman Satomi, the last remaining geisha in Fukushima, who wants to return to her destroyed home in the exclusion zone. Two women who could not be more different, but who, each in her own way, are trapped in the past and have to learn to free themselves from their memories.

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