New York, London, Monroe is a memory piece reflecting the souls unrequited love for a place, or a life, it has never consciously visited. A Future Archive is projected, drawn from the Artist's past works.
In this evocative and unique experimental documentary, award winning filmmaker Jill Daniels explores her memories of violence 30 years ago hitchhiking through the Basque country. She searches for the places she hopes will jolt her fading memory. Merging past and present, documentary and fiction she recreates her journey. Diving further into this world she discovers other women, Maria and Aitziber, also changed by violence. Maria is a photographer who lives alone and has survived a car crash but her niece was killed. Her dead father was sentenced to death in the civil war in Spain and she holds close his prison diary. Aitziber is a young Basque nationalist who spent five years in prison and for five days after her arrest was tortured by the Spanish police. Together these stories, build a mosaic of impressions of the past and present. As Daniels comes to the end of her journey she realizes she can't be free of the past. She has come full circle.
Oscar is coming of age, against his better judgement. In doing so he must experience the necessary evil of leaving something behind, but he can still feel it in the pit of his stomach.
Henrick has worn the same kind of shoes since he was 7 years old - white ordinary sneakers. When Henrick wore his 157th white sneaker marked number 157, the observer (a narrator) decides to steal Henrick’s sneakers.
This film is about personal doubt – ‘where am I heading’, which is paralleled with events surrounding a Korean space launch of a satellite which is lost in orbit.
