A multifaceted experimental documentary - history and fate are uncovered. Places and impressions are retraced. They lie buried in the memory, oppressed by too many “wrong" pictures, and have remained inexplicable. The own family biography furnishes the background of this analysis: after the attack on Pearl harbor, ten thousands of Japano-Americans were locked up in concentration camps. Personal belongings were not allowed. While the father was serving in the US-Army, the family was living in the camp. The documenation of that time in newsreels, propaganda material, and excerpts from movies plus interviews with the relatives and camp inmates enhance the material shot on location. Personal history is thus woven into an analysis on how very diverse pictures effect the documented history. The deeper the understanding of history becomes, the more explicable the once so obsessive pictures become. The mother’s motives for forgetting are seen in another light. This film is dedicated to her.