August 6th, 1945 stops mattering the moment you realize you're watching 220 real girls live their last ordinary days. The film pulls from actual journals and survivor testimony, so every moment before the blast feels stolen, every laugh feels like it was paid for in advance. It doesn't explain Hiroshima to you, it lets you stand in the room where it happened, watching girls your age make tea and gossip and plan futures that won't exist by tomorrow.
Hiroshima, 1945. The second and third-year students of a girls' school are sent off to labor in war factories, leaving 220 first-year girls behind. As the only teenagers left in a town that has almost emptied out, they try to make something good of their unusual situation despite the hardships of wartime, until an American bomber changes everything. This one-episode drama special aired on the 43rd anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing, dedicated to the girls who were killed by the atomic bomb.