How does it feel to become an occupier without your intention? Through known as well as never published archival materials from the whole of Europe and Russia we see a family story of the director about how high politics destroys the lives of ordinary people. A couple of years ago, she discovered a family secret about her grand-uncle who came to occupy Czechoslovakia in 1968 as a Soviet soldier. Searching for her great-uncle’s story, the author touches upon themes like fragmentation of personal and national memory, inherited guilt, interpretation of history, media manipulation, today’s relationship with Russia, and the attitudes of Czechs and Slovaks towards foreigners – all very current topics.