Through my eyes. Natural disaster zones
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1) Hotaka
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When the tsunami strikes the Japanese seaside town of Omori-wan, the effects are utterly devastating. Three years later, much of what happened on that day is still a mystery. As Hotaka sets about convincing local performers to appear at the town's upcoming Memorial Concert, he finds himself increasingly haunted by memories of best friend, Takeshi, who perished without trace in the tsunami. Then his friend Sakura becomes involved in an anti-seawall...
2) Shaozhen
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Shaozhen has no intention of staying in his remote Henan village and becoming another poor farmer: he'll finish school, and then, hopefully, work in a factory in one of the major cities, just like his father. But when Shaozhen returns home for the summer holidays, imagining days filled with nothing but playing basketball with his friends, he's in for a shock. The worst drought in more than years threatens the crops that the entire village relies on...
3) Angel
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"There's an ear-splitting crash as the first wave hurls itself at the little house, forcing open the door and gushing through the window. Angel screams. The ladder si torn away just as she jumps onto the roof beam. Water is up to her chin and she is fighting to keep her head above its churning mass. 'Papa! Papa!' She searches desperately for any sign of her father as the water sweeps her away, but he's vanished." Angel's family has seen many typhoons....
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Lyla has just started her second year of high school when a magnitude 6.3 earthquake shakes Christchurch to pieces. Devastation is everywhere. While her police officer mother and trauma nurse father respond to the disaster, Lyla puts on a brave face, opening their home to neighbours and leading the community clean-up. But soon she discovers that it's not only familiar buildings and landscapes that have vanished - it's friends and acquaintances too....