The Non Violence International Film Festival 2008

With the reality of a nuclear threat more and more present - especially because of recent U.S. politics - Maki, the granddaughter of a Hiroshima bombing survivor, strives to keep the memory of the horror alive so that history is not repeated.Evelyn, originally from the Marshall Islands and exiled in Honolulu, is the adopted daughter of a woman irradiated by a U.S. thermonuclear bomb. She lives with the nightmare of genetic malformations and cancers at the forefront of her mind.Maurea, a young, Tahitian, anti-nuclear activist struggles in a society where mentioning anything nuclear is taboo. Through Maurea's journey we discover a country torn apart by nuclear colonization and an environment rendered vulnerable to plutonium.In New Zealand, an anti-nuclear country, we meet Annie. She walks in the shoes of her parents, heroic figures in the peace movement, and instrumental in the condemnation of arms by the International Court of Justice.These young women introduce us to the film's themes: the rewriting of history for the purposes of political opportunism, the reality of new nuclear arms, planetary contamination, the anti-missile shield program, and peace movements.From Hiroshima, to the Marshall Islands, Tahiti, New Zealand and Vancouver we hear the accounts of scientists, political experts, activists, and, of course, the descendants - who cling to the hope that their testimony can free us from the threat of sudden destruction.