In this tale of a young man's quest for the truth of his identity, static moments of private lives are projected through history and coalesce in a film-like narrative that reconstructs the lives of a society and the individuals who were formed by it. Picture postcards bearing scrawled messages, yellowed photograph albums and the rambling remembrances of an elderly woman are the tools with which the narrator must reconstruct his past and discover the roots of self. As he unravels three generations of ancestors, a compelling saga of intermingled lives and undifferentiated passions unfolds.