One of Germany's foremost filmmakers, award-winning Doris Dörrie (Men, Naked, Am I Beautiful?), directs this tender, emotionally intense and profoundIy moving story of maritaI love. OnIy Trudi knows that her husband Rudi is suffering from a terminaI iIlness. She decides not to teIl him and convinces him to visit their family in BerIin. Then, suddenly, Trudi dies. Rudi is devastated but vows to make up for her Iost life. And so he embarks on his Iast journey - to Tokyo - in the midst of the cherry blossom festival, a celebration of beauty, impermanence and new beginnings. |