Plot

A French actress filming an anti-war film in Hiroshima has an affair with a married Japanese architect as they share their differing perspectives on war.

A French woman and a Japanese man have an affair while she is in Japan making a film about peace and the impact of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, The man, an architect, lost his family in the bombing. She recalls her lover during the war, a 23 year-old German soldier who later died. Despite the time they spend together, her attachment appears minimal and they go forward into the future.—garykmcd

On assignment in Hiroshima to make her screen debut in an anti-war film, a young French actress has a fleeting but passionate affair with a Japanese architect who lives in town. However, as the ephemeral lovers exchange thoughts and memories during the remaining hours of her time in Hiroshima, painful flashbacks of her youthful wartime liaison in her native Nevers inextricably intertwine with the haunting remembrance of that appalling period in history. But soon, morning comes, and all that remains will be the nostalgia of an impossible love.—Nick Riganas

1959. A French young woman has spent the night with a Japanese man, at Hiroshima where she went for the shooting of a film about peace. He reminds her of the first man she loved. It was during World War II, and he was a German soldier. The main themes of this film are memory and oblivion.—Yepok

While shooting an international movie about peace in Hiroshima, a married French actress has a torrid one night stand with a married Japanese architect. They feel a deep passion for each other and she discloses her first love in times of war in the French town of Nevers to him. He falls in love with her and asks her to stay with him in Hiroshima.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil