Lyrical, intimate, and sometimes humorous, Souvenirs is a eulogy in film of a Veteran whose Post Traumatic Stress Disorder case is actively under review by the Veterans' Affairs office 8 years after his suicide. Ivars 'Andy' Pelecis was a man who wanted to move on. Andy survived the Vietnam War physically, but lived without recognition of his war related mental illness until the day he took his own life in 2002. After 30 years of struggling to 'survive the peace' through alcohol, and ten stays in the locked ward at hospital, Andy's case was reopened by his social workers. Mara Pelecis, Andy's daughter, seeks to reveal her dad's real story that was hidden from her as a child.—Anonymous

Struggling to come to terms with her father's suicide, a daughter unearths the elusive layers of his mental health when Veterans Affairs reopens his medical records. Andy Pelecis's case is one of the first psychological autopsies in the VA system. Andy's death drove his daughter, Mara, to ask: 'How could he survive the war, but not the peace?' She seeks out other veterans to resolve questions he refused to answer. Rolling Thunder bikers, Veterans for Peace, National Guard and Native American veterans share stories of flashbacks, feelings of survival guilt, and fears of being committed. Combining Andy's Bolex footage with Mara's documentation of the family for 20 years- this is a true story of the fallout of war on a veteran and his family over decades.