Based on a true story
This story is about a girl named Aya who suffered from an incurable disease, but lived life to the fullest until her death at 25. The original story is based on the diary Aya kept writing until she could no longer hold a pen. The book that later followed entitled ?One Liter of Tears" has sold over 1.1 million copies.
Aya's only wish was ?to live." By carefully depicting Aya's earnest desire to live, and the love of her family, friends, and lover, the drama, ?One Liter of Tears" wishes to deliver her simple but strong message: ?Just being alive is such a lovely and wonderful thing."
Episode One
The drama starts right before Aya is hit with the tragic illness, called Spinocerebellar Degeneration, in which the nerve cells of areas necessary for the human body to move and balance - including the cerebellum, brain stem, and spinal cord - transform and eventually disappear.
15-year old Aya Ikeuchi is the eldest daughter of a typical Japanese family. She lives with her cheerful and reliable mother, Shioka, father Mizuo, owner of a tofu shop, younger sisters Ako and Rika, and younger brother Hiroki.
Get out a FULL box of tissues for this one!!
Partal English translation of Aya's Diary of tears.
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