Set in 1982 UK, director Kei Ishikawa's adaptation of Nobel Prize-winning author Kazuo Ishiguro's debut novel follows a young aspiring Japanese-British writer who plans to write a book based on her mother Etsuko's post-war experiences in Nagasaki. Haunted by the suicide of her older daughter, Etsuko begins to recount her memories from 1952 as a young mother-to-be. Her story starts with her encounter with Sachiko, a young woman full of hope about starting a new life abroad with her young daughter. The writer finds troubling inconsistencies as she pieces together the mementoes of her mother's Nagasaki years with the memories Etsuko shares.