The tragedy of an air raid on Tokyo on March 10th, 1945, is described based on witness testimony. The central focus is the narrative of a mother who was 24 years old at the time and ran from the flames leading her four-year-old son by the hand and carrying her eight-month-old twin daughters on her back. The testimony is taken from A History of Tokyo Air Raids/War Damage (1973) and other sources. As though enveloping this history, the footage of the Tokyo rivers and parks through which the mother fled as they are today is deeply affecting.