THE IDEA

I will write peace on your wings and you will fly all over the world.
- Sadako-

The story of my film is based on a book I read as a child and it really impressed me with its deep message and compassion with a main character.

http://www.pcf.city.hiroshima.jp/virtual/VirtualMuseum_e/exhibit_e/exh0107_e/exh01071_e.html

The book is based on a real story of young Japanese girl Sadako Sasaki, but I slightly changed it in wish to make it visually more engaging and to fit it to filmic language of animation.

Sadako was a healthy young girl with a passion for running.

But one day, at the age of 12, while she was doing what she loved the most- running- she collapsed.

She was hospitalized soon after. When she was 2 years old , the atomic bomb struck the floor just one mile away from where they lived. As a consequence of radiation she was diagnosed with a lethal blood cancer (leukemia) 10 years after...

Days were passing by in a hospital, where the lonely and frightened little girl was expecting her uncertain future

One day a friend visited and revealed her an old Japanese believe, that everyone who does 1000 paper cranes is granted a wish

This gave Sadako a ray of hope and she started to fold cranes .

She wished for herself to get better and run again, but for all the children of the world to live in peace.

...but sadly...more and more cranes she created...more the disease progressed

On 25th of October 1955 she passed away, after months of struggling with this awful disease. She left 999 cranes behind ...

She didn't really die, just imagined to walk into this beautiful landscape, where cranes were sunbathing in morning down and sunbeams were playing on the branches of the trees. After months of suffering she finally felt released and free of pain.

Contemplating this beautiful moment, she put her hands up against the sun into the shape of crane....suddenly the transformation began...Sadako turned into the crane herself

She became the symbol the peace and remained until today, in times when :