In this fiction period drama, 12 year old Karl Feinstein is squeezed between his parents hidden Communist Party activities and the social pressures of an all-American teen. He learns that sometimes manhood means doing what authority says is wrong.

"A documentary that mixes personal and public history as it describes the 1956 persecution of Marx’s father - a Jewish refugee who fled Germany in 1939 and joined the Communist Party in 1945." - J. Rosenbaum, The Reader

"A tension caught between De Antonio revelation and the lyricism of personal filmmaking. Quite an achievement in the sheer efficacy of its telling." - Bruce Jenkins, Walker Art Center