Everything Is Illuminated

A young Jewish American man endeavors—with the help of eccentric, distant relatives—to find the woman who saved his grandfather during World War II—in a Ukrainian village which was ultimately razed by the Nazis.

• blindness and impaired vision
• nazi
• grandparent grandchild relationship
• mass murder
• pop culture
• journey in the past
• souvenir
• collector
• antisemitism
• photograph
• closeted homosexual
• gay theme
• ukraine