The young German Marie (Rosalie Thomass) is one who goes out to learn to fear. Fleeing her shattered life dreams and the loss of the love of her life, she travels to Fukushima Prefecture for the organization Clowns4Help. Together with the clown Moshe (Moshe Cohen), she wants to bring a little joy to the surviving victims of the 2011 triple disaster, who years later are still living in shelters. Making heavy things lighter. A task for which Marie, she soon has to admit to herself, is not at all suited.
But before she runs away again, Marie decides to stay with, of all people, stubborn old Satomi (Kaori Momoi), Fukushima's last geisha, who wants to move back into her destroyed house in the exclusion zone on her own. Two women who could not be more different, but who are both - each in her own way - trapped in the past and must learn to free themselves from their feelings of guilt and the burden of their memories.
The young German Marie (Rosalie Thomass) is one who goes out to learn to fear. Fleeing her shattered life dreams and the loss of the love of her life, she travels to Fukushima Prefecture for the organization Clowns4Help. Together with the clown Moshe (Moshe Cohen), she wants to bring a little joy to the surviving victims of the 2011 triple disaster, who years later are still living in shelters. Making heavy things lighter. A task for which Marie, she soon has to admit to herself, is not at all suited.
But before she runs away again, Marie decides to stay with, of all people, stubborn old Satomi (Kaori Momoi), Fukushima's last geisha, who wants to move back into her destroyed house in the exclusion zone on her own. Two women who could not be more different, but who are both - each in her own way - trapped in the past and must learn to free themselves from their feelings of guilt and the burden of their memories.