Emir Cakaroz

While the film focuses on a mother and son’s relationship, it investigates the long-term effects of the immigration of the filmmaker’s family from Bulgaria to Turkey and the life of a widow in a patriarchal culture.

Take a deep dive into the underground eco-system that is Milwaukee's Riverwest Film & Video. Part video store, part radio station, and totally trippy, Riverwest serves as a neighborhood hangout for cinephiles, soulful singers, and lost souls. Director Emir Cakaroz takes his place with the other flies on the wall and introduces us to an amazing cast of real-life characters, from self proclaimed rabbis to would-be bike messengers, it takes all kinds to create the self-contained universe that is Riverwest Film & Video.

The film combines the filmmaker's story in the U.S.A. with people from different social, racial, and ethnic backgrounds that he wouldn't have met if he hadn't come to this country. It explores the experience of being in between many cultures when living in a foreign land.

Recreates memories the filmmaker has of his dad. It presents an observation of a father from the point of view of a young child and shows how the immigration of the filmmaker's family from Bulgaria to Turkey shaped their lives.

A personal documentary film that is about the immigration of the filmmaker's family from Bulgaria to Turkey.