bramneel

The movie shows interesting human strategies for dealing with loss, whether the death of loved ones or the annihilation of entire people's as in the Holocaust. The film shows a lot of love for friends, but it’s hard when it comes to a loss of a loved person. Two Jewish families in Antwerp deal catastrophically with problems in life. One family tries to escape from everything Jewish and become modern. This leaves such an emptiness, that the father of the family doesn't know why he spends all his time searching the city and reading maps or books for the place where he buried some family luggage with the family treasure, before being deported during the Holocaust in WO II. The other family is an very orthodox Judaism family, they cuts themselves off from all that is new and different. But when Chaya, the daughter from the other family, comes in their lives they change and they are looking different to the world and accept her in their lives.