September 1, 1939: The Germans invade Poland. Mark’s grandfather, Jack Atkin, is the manager of the successful, family-owned textile factory. He only has a few hours left to gather his belongings and bury them at his estate in Lodz before fleeing to London in an old, rusty car. He is the only person who knows where the treasure is buried and he passes the secret on to his son David, Mark’s father.
2009, seventy years later: Mark Atkin undertakes an adventure through the lives of his grandparents and his entire family. He sets off for a deeply personal treasure hunt.
In Los Angeles, he finds a part of his family and the key to his own history. He comes to know the details of his family’s involvement in the war, the flight and expulsion from Poland, and the Holocaust. He hears fascinating anecdotes of a family history that began in Riga and continued through Lodz, London, Kuba, and finally the United States. It comes to a conclusion at the place where the old family house stands in the once-thriving Polish industrial city of Lodz.
At the old family house, however, Mark finds the way to the long sought-after treasure blocked. The family residence is now under the control of the Polish military, and Polish military intelligence are operating a laboratory on the site where the treasure is hidden. The hurdles Mark and his now arriving family have to face seem insuperable, but he never gives up, sometimes blurring the line between legal and illegal, all the hopes of finally unearthing the family treasure.
Director Jerzy Sladkowski (“Swedish Tango”) carries us away into the history of the European Jews and portrays the attempt to understand their countless buried secrets.  The bygone past suddenly acquires a fascinating relevance, and Mark Atkin begins an almost mystical journey through the political realities of modern Poland and the memory of the dwindling generation of survivors from a time that seems irrecoverably lost.
The documentary illustrates the historical flashbacks with artistic animation and follows the character with great attention to detail and with a unique perspective. It comes off as a fleet-footed, humorous, and big-hearted saga – a modern fairy tale and an emotional journey with unexpected turns.