Fugitive Pieces

Jakob Beer's life is haunted by his childhood experiences during WWII. His story begins in 1942 when he is nine years old. Nazi soldiers have murdered his parents and abducted his teenage sister, Bella. Traumatized by this horrific event, Jakob sneaks out of his hiding place and struggles to survive. He is found by Athos Roussos, a Greek archaeologist working at a Polish dig site, who adopts him. As he grows older, Jakob begins a new life, studying, writing, and eventually falling in love with Alex, a beautiful young woman. Yet he remains haunted by his parents' death and the question of his sister's fate. Over the course of his life, he attempts to deal with the losses he has endured. Through his writing, and then through the discovery of true love, Jakob is ultimately freed from the legacy of his past. Based on the best-selling novel by award-winning writer Anne Michaels, FUGITIVE PIECES is a powerful, poetic, and emotionally charged drama about love, loss, and redemption. (In English and Greek with English subtitles) -CCP