When The Children Ask

What do we do with memory, the painful and shameful, the meaningful and worthy? The next generation will ask. What stories will we tell? In the face of beautiful and difficult histories and geographies, When the Children Ask meditates upon how to be. Filmmakers Rebecca and Naomi weave their father's teachings, rabbi and scholar Ismar Schorsch, with that of other inheritors of German history, offering a connected vision of pasts, presents, and futures. When the Children Ask invites us to consider how our worst crimes can be faced honestly and how living close to our pain can open us to others.