This hour long British documentary follows the homecoming of London Rabbi Hugo Gryn to the city of Berehovo, once in Czechoslovakia, now (in 1990) a part of the Soviet Union, where he finds the once thriving Jewish population all but gone. Little is left of the town he knew so well, but Gryn is able to recall, in mostly rose-colored memories, the people, places, and events of his childhood, favoring details of daily life in the Jewish community over an account of its death during the Holocaust (Gryn himself was on the last cattle car to Auschwitz, and he relives the moment 45 years to the day after it happened). There's a lack of spontaneity to his narrated voice-over observations, but they at least serve an important purpose: by recalling the past, Gryn succeeds in preserving it, and the film is an intimate (if sometimes mundane) eulogy to a way of life now gone forever.
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