In 1946, bread, coal, ship tickets, and even human dignity all had a price.
There are a few lines of writing on the back of the map, and there is a red kimono folded in the suitcase.
History has turned. That maple leaf is still stuck on the previous page.
Purpose: The end of war does not mean the end of suffering. The work uses the clues of a human search across the UK and Japan to write about ordinary people obscured by the grand history, and the traces left by the war on their destiny, memory and dignity.
