![]() ![]() She buries them in a grave, asking why they and her mother had to die. The next day, Setsuko is horrified to find that the insects have died. They release fireflies into the shelter for light. Seita and Setsuko leave and move into an abandoned bomb shelter. As rations shrink and the number of refugees in the house grows, the aunt becomes resentful of the children, saying they do nothing to earn the food she prepares. Seita retrieves supplies he buried before the bombing and gives everything to his aunt but a tin of Sakuma drops. ![]() Seita and Setsuko move in with a distant aunt, who convinces Seita to sell his mother's kimonos for rice. They are unharmed, but their mother dies from burns. Some months earlier, Seita and Setsuko's house is destroyed in a firebombing along with most of Kobe. The spirit of Seita's younger sister, Setsuko, springs from the tin and is joined by Seita's spirit and a cloud of fireflies. A janitor sorts through his possessions and finds a candy tin, which he throws into a field. In 1945, shortly after the end of World War II, a teenage boy, Seita, dies of starvation in a Kobe train station. ![]()
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