Dialogue is in both Yiddish and English.
I would like the pulse of the construction, the rhythms of the visuals to speak as clearly as the sparse aural track. Although the images and visuals are specific to my experience and background, I see this work in the broader context of reconstructing family histories in order to better understand and live with filial relationships. In some ways, the act of making thi s film is an opportunity to continue a relationship, a way of living with a father who left so much unsaid and untouched, and whose expectations continue to haunt me years after his death. Assembled from home movies, children's dra wings, interviews with his parents, and the three surviving photographs from his father's life in Poland, the film is an extraordinary document not only of one man's life but his son's bewildered responce to it.