Τhis video-essay unfolds the testimonies of refugees from the Asia Minor Catastrophe, including members of her own family, who initially settled in Drama, were later sent to forced labor camps, and eventually became immigrant workers in Germany. Through abstract editing, she interlaces the voices of three generations of refugees and migrants with white noise and images of industrial production lines. In a rhythmic and sensorial manner, the film delves into questions of memory, oblivion, and political resistance.
As Melitopoulos herself notes, “the film sketches the interweaving of a narration in which forgetting is never purely individual. Each act of forgetting merges with the forgetting of a past world, combining with it in countless, uncertain, shifting connections, in ever new monstrosities”.
