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This is a feature documentary about a Holocaust survivor and her family traveling through Central Europe, revisiting her childhood haunts, seeing the locations of her wartime travails and hearing about the “little” acts of love that kept her alive. Autobiographical, the family includes the filmmakers, Doniphan and Nicholas Blair (the entire production team), Doniphan’s rebellious teenage daughter Irena, Nick’s worrywart wife Tania, their joke-cracking gentile father Vachel, and their survivor mother Tonia. Arriving from NYC to her hometown of Lodz, Poland, they are confronted by neo-Nazi graffiti, local drunks and her eye-witness accounts – all filmed exactly where they happened. But it was not all one big bummer. They also enjoyed goofing around and Tonia’s stories of childhood. Researching a wartime era clue and assisted by a friendly Polish mayor, they locate where Tonia’s family was murdered. Then they follow her precise wartime route, first to Auschwitz where the film artfully portrays the death camp experience then to camps in Germany and Austria. Along the way familial love turns to conflict when Doniphan asks the family to wear Jewish stars and march through a German town and Irena refuses, although she comes to her own understanding later. In another one of the film’s various performance pieces, the family gives away bread in the Czech Republic to honor the good Samaritans who fed Tonia during the war. The film concludes on this theme – kindness as an existential counter force to atrocity.