The 13-year-old Megumi Yokota leaves her school in Niigata, a coastal city in Japan, never to come home. On this November 15, 1977, she was kidnapped to North Korea. Her parents believe she is still alive and the film maker has started to believe it too. She resorts to every documentary and feature technique to make that credible.

MEGUMI is a unique, unusual film, several genres are mixed together. In the first place documentary with fiction, but this isn't an ordinary docudrama either. The documentary parts comprise fictional elements and the fictional parts remain close to reality.

The film tells the story of the dramatic disappearance of the Japanese schoolgirl Megumi Yokota on 15 November 1977. In the form of the actress Janica Draisma, the film maker visits the coastal town of Niigata from whence Megumi disappeared. Thirty years later, the family and the acquaintances of the girl are still stunned. They are still incredulous. Still filled with a sorrow they can't come to terms with. In the meantime it has become apparent that Megumi was kidnapped to North Korea to teach North Korean trainee spies to speak fluent Japanese. The parents of Megumi are convinced that their daughter is still alive, even though North Korea alleges that she has committed suicide.

The film maker tells a poetic and emotional story. She was not primarily interested in the political side of the story. Hart breaking interviews with Megumi Yokota´s parents, brothers and former head master show their never ending love for Megumi. Impressed by the hope and power of the parents, the film maker used elements of the feature film in order to make visible that also she came to believe that Megumi is still alive.