Following the fall of the Iron Curtain, music journalist Ruth and her father Edek, a Holocaust survivor, go on a tour of his homeland of Poland. Their journey takes them to Warsaw, Łódź, Krakow and the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. Ruth wants to discover her own roots and to explore her family’s history. Edek, who back then made the decision to leave Poland forever and be done with the past, accompanies his daughter primarily to keep an eye on her. The charming bon vivant follows his own amusing agenda on the trip, filled with distraction and entertainment. Only when the two visit the family’s former home and meet the Polish family who now live there does Edek’s attitude start to change. For the first time in their lives, father and daughter truly grow closer to each other. This journey of two New Yorkers through post-socialist Poland is a powerful example of how reconnecting with a painful past does not have to be painful in itself.