In 1941, a Lithuanian man kills
Isaac, his Jewish neighbor, during the infamous Lietukis garage massacre,
one of the first acts of the Holocaust carried out not by Germans but by Lithuanians. Twenty-five years later, in Soviet Lithuania, the director Gediminas Gutauskas returns from the United States with a new script for a film describing in detail the massacre of the Lietukis garage and in particular the killing of the Jewish man Isaac. The script later came to the attention of the KGB, which started investigating.
Based on the novel by Antanas Škėma, the film of the emerging director Jurgis Matulevičius explores the post-war sense of guilt, war traumas and experiences of the exile in an engaging film rich of surprises.