FUGITIVE PIECES is a powerful, poetic, and emotionally-charged drama about love, loss and redemption. The film tells the story of Jakob Beer, a man whose life is haunted by his childhood experiences during WWII. As a child in Poland he is orphaned during wartime then saved by a compassionate Greek archeologist. Over the course of his life, he attempts to deal with the losses he has endured. Through his writing, and then through the discovery of true love, Jakob is ultimately freed from the legacy of his past. FUGITIVE PIECES is based on the beloved best-selling novel by award-winning writer Anne Michaels. (Source)
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Jakob Beer is a child who witnesses his family’s slaughter at the hands of the Nazis. Athos Roussos, a Greek archaeologist, finds him and smuggles him out of Poland to Greece. After the war, they emigrate to Canada where Jakob eventually becomes a poet and translator. Ben, the young son of Holocaust survivors, learns of Jakob’s past when he finds his diaries. (