Being a luthier is a job for some, an art for others, a craft or a way to get rich for yet others. But this documentary is about much more than this.
How can you make it in the West? What is the best way to assimilate and integrate in a foreign Western town if you emigrate from Eastern Europe? Are there models that we should know about?
Does the world of capitalism have nothing to offer but competition and rivalry? Can you form a community with those you are competing with?
What is the dominant feeling in a post-communist country? How can an ideology rob people of hope in the future, even decades after her demise? I'm talking, of course, about the communist ideology.
What is the best way to get over your depression? Not feeling anything? What are the most common ways to rationalize your failures? Who can you blame for your lack of success? The lack of community and friends?
The answers to all these questions are explored in this documentary.