When 80-year-old interpreter Ali Ungàr suddenly discovers surprising facts about the Nazi past, he decides to travel to Vienna and confront the alleged murderer of his parents. But instead, he only finds his son, seventy-year-old acoholic Georg. Although Georg never wanted to deal with his father's past, his interest is aroused by Ali and the two of them go on a roadtrip to Slovakia in search of answers. What they find out about the country, the past, and themselves brings the two men, who at first don't seem to have anything in common, to a point of mutual understanding.
»We travelled across a large part of Central Slovakia and had no trouble finding people who would be keen to send someone to the gas chamber or shoot a whole ethnic minority. /…/ Many Slovaks are not interested in the past, they are absorbed by contemporary social problems, they have lost all awareness of the context and, without batting an eyelid, are capable of accepting any political demagogy manipulating history and offering radical solutions. Our heroes, just like we did, encounter various people on their road, people who represent a variety of views of our past and together create a picture of the world they live in, of its values.« (Martin Šulík)
Martin Šulík
Born in 1962 in Žilina, Slovakia, Šulík studied at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava. His most successful film to date, The Garden, won the Czech Lion Award in five different categories. He has also worked as a screenwriter and has focused on documentary and television productions. In 2005, he returned to making feature films with the comedy The City of the Sun.