The death of film as a medium is mirrored in one man's attempt to charthis family's fall from grace.
Poland, at the dawn of the 20th century. Everything is falling apart. Theyoung Jan Ostrowski is forced to abandon everything--home, family,friends--and emigrate to America. He settles down in Bayonne, NewJersey, and as time goes by and new generations are born, memorygrows fragile and the film used to record family memories begins tofade...By something always remains: in this case, a bunch of old photos,a couple rolls of 8mm film, which that Polish emigrant's grandson willuse to make peace with his past by filiming his own Home Movie.
