The film opens with Seita's spirit standing over his own dying body. At which train station does he die?

What date does Seita give in the film's opening narration as the night he died?

A station janitor sorting through the dead boy's belongings finds a small tin and throws it into the field. What is it?

How old is Setsuko when the story begins?

Serving as an officer in the Imperial Japanese Navy

What is the siblings' father doing during the war?

Which city is destroyed in the firebombing raid that sets the story in motion?

Before running from the raid, what does Seita hurriedly do with the family's food supplies?

She has a weak heart and needs to take her medicine and move slowly.

She wants to secure a place for the family.

She goes back for the family savings book.

Why does the children's mother leave for the air-raid shelter ahead of them?

At an aid station by the river, unharmed but in shock

A school turned into a makeshift hospital, wrapped head to toe in bandages

Where does Seita find his mother after the raid?

A naval officer who served with their father

A distant relative, an aunt in Nishinomiya

Who takes the children in after they lose their home?

What does the aunt convince Seita to trade away for rice?

That he does nothing for the war effort and lives off her household

What is the aunt's chief complaint about Seita as the weeks pass?

A neighbor begins feeding the children instead.

Seita takes a factory job to pay for their board.

Seita separates their rice ration and they cook their own meals.

The aunt throws them out that same night.

How does the tension over food at the aunt's house finally resolve?

A hollowed-out ruin in the burned district

Where do Seita and Setsuko go to live on their own?

They catch fireflies and release them under the mosquito net.

They use candles taken from the aunt's cupboard.

They burn scraps of their father's letters.

How do the children light their new home on the first night?

What does Seita compare the swarming fireflies to as he watches them?

Trying to catch more fireflies in the tin

Feeding the dead fireflies to the fish in the pond

Sweeping the dead insects out of the shelter

What does Seita find Setsuko doing the following morning?

She has been sneaking back to the aunt's house.

She already knows their mother is dead; the aunt told her.

She saw their father's name on a casualty list.

During that scene, Setsuko reveals a secret she has been keeping. What is it?

He fills it with water so the sweet residue makes a drink.

He stores their mother's ashes in it from then on.

Once the fruit drops are gone, how does Seita keep using the empty tin for Setsuko?

Stealing crops from farmers' fields and looting homes during air raids

Trading their father's belongings on the black market

As their food runs out, how does Seita start feeding the two of them?

He hands him a share of the harvest out of pity.

He beats him and drags him to the police, but the officer lets him go.

He puts Seita to work in the field to pay off the theft.

He turns him over to the army as a deserter's son.

What happens when a farmer catches Seita stealing?

What does Setsuko put in her mouth, mistaking them for fruit drops?

What does Setsuko proudly serve Seita during one of her games?

What does the doctor say Setsuko needs when Seita finally brings her in?

An unexploded bomb half-buried in the sand

What do the children come across on the beach when Seita takes Setsuko to the sea?

The naval office, to claim his father's pay

The bank, to empty their mother's savings account

Where does Seita go for money in his last attempt to save his sister?

His mother's account was frozen months ago.

Japan has surrendered and the fleet, his father's ship included, is sunk.

The city is to be evacuated within the week.

His father has been promoted and is returning home.

What news does Seita receive at the bank?

What does Seita manage to give Setsuko before she dies?

He carries her to a temple and leaves her with the monks.

He buries her beside the pond and marks the spot with stones.

He cremates her in a straw basket on a hill, with her doll beside her.

How does Seita lay his sister to rest?

Setsuko wakes in the shelter and finds Seita gone.

The janitor returns the tin to the field at dawn.

The siblings' spirits sit on a bench, ringed by fireflies, above a city.

Seita's body is cremated with the other station dead.

How does the film end?

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