Elsa Perusin

There’s nothing unusual about receiving a package in the post. ‘Yes, but...what if...?’ are the wretched type of thoughts that cause Chloé to conjure up farfetched scenarios...If anxiety were an art, then Chloé has certainly mastered it.

The film traces two families, one of which is Jewish, who preserved the images for decades but hadn’t brought them to light. 80 years after their creation, the son of the photographer finds the forgotten negatives and launches an investigation. With a team of researchers, archivists, and animators who use near-forensic precision to reconstruct locations and contexts, they trace the circumstances of those tragic days and the lives captured in each frame.