pyros played by serena mottola is well known to audiences in japan as an actress and model she says this film posed a special challenge. with this in the end there was no script we had to improvise but so i tried to adapt myself to each location and situation and what does it smell like there what people am i meeting what objects are there i worked it all out through empathy couldn't do when they. did in. the film deals with grief and the feeling of being left alone but her also has beautiful experiences on her journey. she meets a kurdish family who invite her to eat with their migrants some living in japan with no settled status becomes friends with their daughter who's her age. their connection helps her get out of her depression voices in the wind deals with japanese national traumas the atomic bombs dropped on hiroshima and nagasaki the tsunami and resulting nuclear disaster in fukushima director noble hero sue us sees a political dimension in keeping alive these memories of catastrophe and. it's barely reported on in the media especially now leading up to the olympic games this yea