Howard Lukk

Edward Taylor is asked to help his boss find his missing wife, Emma, only to realize that instead he has to face his very own demons.

Atomic Mom is a feature length documentary about two women, both mothers, who have very different experiences of the atom bomb. One is my mother, Pauline Silvia, who was a Navy biologist in the early 1950's and was sent to the Nevada Test Site where she witnessed five detonations. After decades of silence, she is in a crisis of conscience about the work she did. The other woman is Emiko Okada, a Hiroshima survivor who was eight years old when the bomb was dropped. Knowing the work that Pauline did, Emiko offers her an olive branch with a beautifully potent message of peace.

Edward Taylor is asked to help his boss find his missing wife, Emma, only to realize that instead he has to face his very own demons.