I rented a great flick from Netflix from Germany called Cherry Blossoms. It is about family, death of a loved one and how each of us best deals with the memory and grief of the loved one. In this film, set in rural Germany, Berlin and Japan, an older woman learns that her husband has a fatal disease that will kill him over the next months to a year or so. The doctors advise her to make his last months as happy as possible. She decides not to tell anyone, including him, of his condition.

She urges him to travel together to Berlin to see two of their children who live there. She also wants to travel together to Tokyo to see their son who lives there. However he doesn't like change or any break from his daily routine and he doesn't like leaving the small alpine town where they live. They go to Berlin but find their children too busy to spend much time with them. Then she dies suddenly when they go to the sea shore afterwards, taking the secret with her.

This film is about adult children and parents and their relationships with each other. It is also about grieving and how one surviving spouse finds the best way to make peace with his wife's death. It is also about how sometimes strangers know more about what we need than anyone else who may know us more.

I highly recommend this film. It will warm your heart. You can rent it from Netflix.