Onigiri

A German-Japanese family story like you’ve never read before. "Beautiful enough to make you cry." (Doris Dörrie) When Aki learns that her grandmother has passed away, she books two flights. One last time, she wants to take her mother to her family in Japan, even though she knows how risky it is to uproot a person with dementia from their familiar surroundings. And indeed, she has never seen Keiko so lost as on the first night in the hotel. But then they sit down for dinner in the old family home, and suddenly, the mother who has become so quiet speaks joyfully and clearly for herself. It is only on this journey that Aki recognizes in her mother the brave and life-hungry woman she once was, before this overwhelming, threatening fatigue settled over her in Germany. With gentle clarity, Yuko Kuhn weaves the fascinating story of a German-Japanese family that gets lost between cultures and finds itself anew.