Junod

Description

Mii and Yuko, two junior‑high students, visit Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park on a school trip and find a monument dedicated to Dr. Marcel Junod standing alone in a corner of the park. Curious about who he was and what he did, they are suddenly bathed in a strange light and transported back to Europe, more than seventy years earlier. It is 1935. The young Dr. Junod, who has been working in a hospital in Mulhouse, France, is preparing to travel to Ethiopia as a delegate of the International Committee of the Red Cross. Mii and Yuko follow Dr. Junod’s path, experiencing the hardships and turmoil he faces. In Ethiopia, Dr. Junod witnesses attacks on Red Cross workers and the use of poison gas, as people fall one after another. The young Dr. Junod...