A Story about Secrets, Sisterhood and Survival

Seventeen years after her mother's death, journalist Marisa Fox discovers a buried secret: Her mother had been in a Nazi forced labor camp as a teenager. There, she and other Jewish girls from a German speaking area in Poland toiled as slaves, turning flax into thread used to sew S.S. uniforms. Unlike so many Holocaust stories, the characters in this one all survived. But at what cost?

Most of the girls remained connected as they wove new lives throughout the globe. Marisa's mother went on to fight in the Israeli underground and as a commando in the Israeli War of Independence. But eventually, she cut every tie to her past and even changed her name when she moved to the United States in the mid '50s. A lost diary of the girls' days in the camp resurfaces in Australia, and Marisa finds there, in its pages, proof of her mother's former identity. In a race against time, she unravels a tale of sisterhood and survival--and the way the trauma of secrets is thread through generations.

(in production, 90 min.)