At the start of World War II, Maria Werla, director Lech Kowalsky's mother, was forced to flee Poland and sent to a labor camp in Siberia. Lech Kowalsky grew up in the US and actively experienced the emergence of punk culture in the 1960s and 70s. Now that all that is behind them, Maria and Lech try to decipher whether their very different lives have anything in common. And they discover sadness.