Fifty years after leaving his hometown, Shmuel Davidovich, the father of the film’s creator, returns to Sighet, which before the war was the Jewish center of Transylvania. After years of silence, Davidovich agrees to share his story as a Holocaust survivor with his children and grandchildren. He recounts his journey through forced labor in Russia, returning home only to find that no one was waiting for him. “Why didn’t you come back here until now?” his son asks him during the nighttime drive to the city. Davidovich replies, “If it weren’t for you, I wouldn’t have returned.” Indeed, the meeting between the city of his memory and the city of reality brings a painful disappointment. But when his young grandchildren watch him being called to the Torah in the same synagogue where he had his Bar Mitzvah exactly 70 years earlier, even he cannot hide his emotions, and now, at last, he is able to close the circle. (Israel, Hebrew, Hungarian, and Romanian, 30 minutes)
Written, directed, produced & cinematographed by Ari Davidovich
Editing: Omer Yefman
Research: Ronit Bergman