It began in World War II. A Ukranian family with two young boys, violently uprooted by soldiers, flees across Europe, struggling to survive and reach America. Aboard a flight to Berlin years later, one of those boys recalls the displaced existence of his family and the unsettling times. His life in the movie business is reflected in the cinematic style of his memory and language, sweeping across some fifty years of survival in a violent world, beginning with the fall of Kiev and ending just after the first Gulf War.