This film follows Fred Zaidman on his journey to trace his inherited trauma. Armed with only scant clues from his late parents, who had survived concentration camps in Poland and Germany, Fred ventures into the unknown to tell his story for this first time. With helpers in Poland, at Yad Vashem in Israel, at Bergen-Belsen in Germany, and from an unlikely source—a Baptist minister in Atlanta—Fred finds his roots, unshackles his pain, and reconstructs his future.