This week, NHK's BS1 channel will present in bilingual format a series of overseas documentaries that show "children working hard" for their families and communities.
On Tuesday at 12:10 a.m., there will be a British documentary called "Watashi no Papa wa 140 kilogram" (My Dad is 140 Kilograms), centering on 15-year-old Emma, who suffers from an eating disorder. Emma only eats one meal a day, if, in fact, she eats anything at all. Already painfully thin, she has lost 6 kg in the last year, and her health is seriously in jeopardy.
A counselor looks into Emma's life and background and discovers the reason for the girl's fear of food. Her father weighs 140 kg, thus making him clinically obese. Emma is basically reacting against her father's own eating disorder.