Arquivo

In post 9/11 America, Paul, a Vietnam vet has plunged into an ultra patriotic and xenophobic paranoia. The terrorist attacks in New York and on the Pentagon unleashed his worst nightmares from the past. Obsessed with the overriding need to identify the nation’s potential enemies, he stalks the streets in search of those who might be terrorists – and in his opinion they can only be Arabs. The counterbalance to Paul’s neurosis is his niece, Lana, an idealistic girl who spent the last 10 years on humanitarian missions in Africa and Europe. Being away from her uncle for so long, she finds him in an attempt to retie the only bond left between her and her mother’s family. Withdrawn from any kind of human contact and rejecting his niece’s approach at first, Paul ends up experiencing new possibilities of looking at life through her contact. When both of them witness an apparently ordinary accident with a Middle Eastern homeless man, uncle and niece decide to investigate the matter further. They leave LA and head for Ground Zero, the place where the Twin Towers once stood in New York. It’s a journey that leads them to the rediscovery of this country that was once the land of dreams and freedom, but since 9/11 is buried in a sea of propaganda that has isolated it from the cultures of the rest of the world.