Examines some of the important programs of the Roosevelt's New Deal of the 1930s and the subsequent response of the Hollywood
film community with a focus on three
European directors in particular — Billy Wilder, Ernst Lubitsch, and Fritz Lang, whose works are compared and contrasted with the products of mainstream Hollywood.
This
film, adapted from a stage work by a Toronto - based dance company, offers a contemporary perspective on a
European community confronted with the Holocaust.