Primo Levis Journey

In February 1945 Primo Levi 19191987 and other Auschwitz survivors set off for home The journey took more then eight months Sixty years later a film crew retraces Levis steps Levis words mainly from The Truce 1963 tell us what he experienced In turn we see Polands hollow postwar factories nationalism in the Ukraine Sovietstyle Communism in Belarus the abandoned town of Prypiat Chernobyl poverty and emigration from Moldavia Italian factories in Romania and on across Hungary and Slovakia to Munich where Levis rage found no listeners Then home to Turin An aged Mario Rigoni Stern remembers his friend What has changed Some issues of the war remain unsettled