To make this film, Academy-Award-winning documentary filmmaker Steven Okazaki (he won for "Days of Waiting" in 1998) took a handheld camera and visited Hiroshima 60 years after the atomic bombing there. He tells the stories of a number of people who survived the blast and those who care for them: a 90-year-old woman who was a 25-year-old newlywed in 1945 and who now collects scraps of melted glass and metal that still turn up in the city; a comic-book artist who survived because he bent down as the to pick up a stone as the bomb exploded; and several members of "The Mushroom Club," a support group for children born with defects caused by nuclear contamination. The film also explores the the politics of pacifism and militarization, which Japan still struggles with today. For more information about the film, see http://www.hbo.com/docs/programs/mushroomclub/index.html