Letters exchanged between a western female writer and her deceased Japanese partner, Hiroshi, narrate a journey up Mount Fuji.

Using only still images, acclaimed artist, Fiona Tan, crafts an extraordinary portrait of Japan's most iconic mountain. Balanced delicately between documentary and fiction, Ascent is at once a love letter to a unique landscape, a study of grief, a meditation on the nature of photography and a social history of 20th Century Japan.