A pregnant evacuee fears that she is still at risk from radiation even in her new location, while her in-laws refuse to leave their home.

An earthquake hits Japan causing a nuclear power plant to explode.

In a small village in the fictitious Nagashima prefecture, a couple of farmers lead a most peaceful existence and cling to their property despite the instructions of the authorities who define a security perimeter cutting the locality in two.

Son and daughter-in-law leave for another village, where Izumi, the young wife, discovers that she is going to give birth to a child.

A film evoking the nuclear disaster in Fukushima on March 11, 2011.