Pale view of the hills

A Pale View of Hills is the story of a Japanese woman, Etsuko, who now lives in England, haunted by the recent suicide of her daughter. As her imagination wanders back to the hot summer days in Nagasaki, when she and her friends struggled to get things back on track after the war, her memories take on a disturbing hue as she recalls her strange friendship with Sachiko, a woman who had gone from rich to homeless.