Synopsis
Israeli poet Liane Schindler (Ilana Shmueli) was born in 1924 in Czernowitz, Romania. In October 1941 all Jews were moved to the Ghetto. While carrying the family’s luggage, 17 year old Ilana was approached by a Romanian Army officer who offered her escape. Ilana refused. Her family survived the Holocaust and immigrated to Palestine in 1944. Although it had no influence on her survival or her later life, time and time again Ilana keeps telling the story of the officer, making it the centrepiece of her “Holocaust Story”. Each time the story takes new directions. She can visualize many details but not the officer’s face. A police artist is brought in to create a facial composite of the man, and objects from her past are used as evidence in her attempt to catch the phantom of her story.
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