The film begins with a question, Do you think the radiation is heavy here? They busy streets of Tokyo swamp the sky of an unknown suspense while a dining table is lit by a family's gentle conversation. AIR takes place in a taxi with 60-year-old local driver, while traveling, observing and conversing intimately of the inescapable fact of life after the nuclear disaster in Fukushima. The conversation wander about the radiation, the 9.11 event, the atomic bombing of Hiroshima through a gentle outlook while mountains, ocean, devastated areas and recently restored cityscape of Soma, outside of the evacuation zone move through the mind of a search. The trees that survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima evoke a hope for this inescapable and unsolvable situation.
