Based on the true events of one of history’s most shocking industrial disasters and corporate betrayals that inspired Johnny Depp’s film Minamata. The mercury poisoning coverup is told through the lives of Yuki and Kiyo who meet in 1956, then gradually fall in love. Together they fight both the Japanese government and a powerful and ruthless company to save their beloved Bay and her family from an incurable disease that maims, paralyzes and kills.

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