Author and director Guido Wertheimer was born in Buenos Aires in 1996 as a descendant of Jewish-German exiles. This is where his great-grandmother Julia Studinski fled from the Nazis in 1939 - and built a new life overnight with her husband and 13-year-old son. They were incredibly lucky: a distant relative who had emigrated to Argentina between the wars provided the family with a letter of invitation and a ticket to a foreign country. The family's possessions were confiscated by the Nazis in the port of Hamburg.