
LikenedbycriticstoIDAandSEARCHINGFORSUGARMAN,thisfascinating,movingdocumentaryisapersonalquestthatturnsintoatrue-lifedetectivestorywhoseunexpectedrevelationsopenupbroadquestionsabouttherelationshipoffamilyhistorytohistory,andofpostwarGermanytoIsraelandtheJewishpast.ReuvenyisayoungIsraeli-bornfilmmakerlivinginGermany,muchtothedismayofherHolocaust-decimatedfamily.Herunderstandingofherfamily’shistoryisupendedwhenshelearnsthatoneofthosesupposedlydecimatedrelatives--hergrandmother’sbrotherFeivkeSchwarz--forgedanewidentitythatheconcealedfromhisfamily.Thefilmmaker’ssearchtakeshertotheformerEastGermany,where,inanidyllicsmalltownwithasinisterpast,shecomesface-to-facewiththemissingchapterinherfamilynarrative.