Fai and her mother wait hopefully for help from her father, who has traveled far to the big city to seek aid from those in power to save their family from the encroaching wildfire. Meanwhile, her mother is teaching Fai to dance as an angel to ask for blessings from the gods, believing that the wildfire is a divine punishment from the heavens.
In the final months of World War II, 14-year-old Seita and his sister Setsuko are orphaned when their mother is killed during an air raid in Kobe, Japan. After a falling out with their aunt, they move into an abandoned bomb shelter. With no surviving relatives and their emergency rations depleted, Seita and Setsuko struggle to survive.
A coming-of-age short film about two people who are seeking refuge from their individual situations of domestic abuse on a rooftop terrace. Up there are an unlikely friendship is forming.