Filmmaker Tomas Ponsteen was adopted from Brazil and does not feel the need to search for his biological mother. Since revelations about adoption abuses, he wonders to what extent his choice not to search is without obligation. Is it a moral duty of every adoptee to search his or her biological mother?
A Canadian director visits her grandmother in Russia after 25 years of separation. Travelling through family memories and those of a country, this roller coaster of emotions invites us into an intimate space for reconciliation.
Through an acting game, the director’s parents become movie stars to talk about the cancer they both overcame and the fear of loss.
A father finds refuge in memories created together with his daughter, who has been stricken with an illness. She has decided to keep her distance from him and they have not spoken for years. The film encourages her to reconsider her decision.
In deze documentaire roadmovie zet een verborgen verhaal over de overleden vader van de filmmaakster een reis in het heden in gang. Onderweg vermengt het landschap zich met een poëtisch dialoog tussen vader en dochter en dienen voorbijgangers als raadgevers in het rouwproces en de zoektocht naar haar vaders verleden.
