In the waning years of the Second World War, the Pacific Theatre posits the only serious stronghold against Allied liberation. Japan's emperor, and his military forces, refuses to accept defeat. Despite the fact that Nazi Germany in falling apart, surrender of the proud Japanese nation is not an option.
Gen is the elder brother of a farming family in the rural area of Hiroshima.
He, his younger brother Shinji, his sister Eiko, and his parents are of typical working class stock, relying on the bounty of their wheat crop to secure their lives. Gen and his family know little about the war that surrounds Japan. His father is content to ignore the struggle and carry on harvesting a crop. Gen, as well as the rest of Hiroshima's population, are unaware of the fate they will share the morning of August 6, 1945. An American B-52 bomber, dubbed Enola Gay , is the sole intruder on another increasingingly routine air raid by the Allied forces over Hiroshima.