For eight years has Kazuo Hara followed the legal battle between the Japanese government and tens of former workers in the asbestos mines of the small town of Sennan. They are survivors of specific diseases – asbestosis, lung cancer – that plagued the asbestos mines workers who had no idea the kinds of dangers they were being exposed to. Through an unpolished style – like life itself – the documentary first draws individual portraits of all these aged people who have to suffer unbearable pain. Within this descriptive, apparently classical structure, Hara inserts flashes of the protagonists in agony or with their face while lying dead. Although the documentary follows the case of this particular group of individuals who search for justice in the world, it also explores themes such as the sufferings caused by illness and death.