A semi-autobiographical film about a child’s experience in a safe room during the Gulf War.
"Almost everything disappeared. How did it happen?" a man wonders on his deathbed. Elizabeth Lazebnik’s patient, poetic and supremely controlled film sensitively addresses the terrible thought that our pasts, our accomplishments, our families, and friends can be effaced by encroaching sickness and impending death.
Toronto's diverse culture and heritage are explored through a couple's belongings, juxtaposed with the neighborhood in which they live.
