A diptych about two characters who have many and one story to tell. At the start of World War II, Maria Merla was taken fromPoland and made a slave in a soviet work camp in Siberia. She was not alone. There were hundreds of thousands of other Poles. Merla’s struggle for survival influenced and set her son, Lech Kowalski, apart from everyone else. New York. The 70’s. Kowalski imerses in the american underground, protest becomes his culture and, as an independant cineast, he observes fellow others living on the edge of society. Thirty years later, Kowalski invites his mother to recall her past, a history that is also his own. An enquiry to our roots and identity. Who are we and why are we like this?
