Finding Home (Hungary, 1945)

by Dean Cycon

For nine months in Auschwitz, eighteen-year-old Eva Fleiss clings to sanity by playing piano on imaginary keyboards. After liberation, Eva and the five remaining Jews of Laszlo, Hungary, journey home, seeking to restart their lives. Yet the town that deported them is not ready to embrace their return. Their former neighbors and friends resist relinquishing their newfound status and property, and they struggle with their roles as perpetrators, enablers, and bystanders during the Holocaust. Longing for connection to her old life, Eva agrees to clean her former home, now the mayor’s home, in return for practice time on her piano. As her profound experiences allow her to access music at a depth she didn't know existed, Eva’s performances begin to affect those around her—with unexpected consequences.

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