Fools on Fire

A director faces creative block while working on his latest film – a reimagination of his adolescence growing up in a mountain village in rural Japan.

With the aid of a fellow Auschwitz survivor and a hand-written letter, an elderly man with dementia goes in search of the person responsible for the death of his family.

Believing that the world will end that very day, three mental patients Coco, Tsumuji, and Satoru set out upon a journey. Walking upon the tops of the walls of the city, they seek to find a picnic spot with the best vantage point to view the final event.

Three people — a blue-collar American, a French journalist and a London school boy — are touched by death in different ways.