Richland

The city of Richland was built by the US government to house workers producing plutonium for the Manhattan Project, resulting in the atomic bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.

Richland tells the story behind this city, in archival footage, contemporary observations and conversations with nuclear workers, residents, archaeologists, local tribes and a granddaughter of Japanese survivors of the bombings. This makes the documentary a lyrical meditation on a sense of home, safety, whiteness and geological time.