A Thousand Cranes

In 1950s Japan, 12-year-old Sadako enters a race to be the fastest girl in Hiroshima, but instead finds herself in a race for her life. Diagnosed with radiation sickness years after the atomic bomb, she takes an old legend to heart: if a sick person folds a thousand paper cranes, the gods will grant her wish and make her well again. Sadako’s courageous journey leads us through both joy and sadness as we share in her story of a triumphant spirit and a hope for peace.