A personal generational dialogue between a daughter and her father, born from reviewing old footage shot by the man while traveling abroad across the Iron Curtain.
This film is based on a family archive of VHS tapes shot by a (post-)Soviet figure skater during the transition period of the 1980s and 1990s. Mikhail’s camera documents his unique trips abroad, as well as his baby daughter in the homely Kyiv and Odesa. The film is a free-narrative retrospective exploration of the father and daughter’s visions of paradise. How are the videos perceived now, when “the West” is not unattainable anymore? And what is the daughter's true interest in this footage when she has reached her father’s age?
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