La rama seca del cerezo

In Hiroshima in 1945, Ichiro and Masuji play in the streets of the city moments before the atomic bomb is dropped. In today's Hiroshima, Sakura, a teenager with a deformity in her hand, survives teasing from her classmates and family isolation, she thinks that her mother no longer loves her father, absorbed by work, he barely sees it. Aiko, a virtual friend, lives in another city and it is not easy for them to get to know each other. Her true wish is to become a manga artist, although she knows that will never happen. But Sakura's life takes a turn when she crosses paths with little Tetsuo and an old survivor of the Hiroshima bombing who keeps a great secret.