The film chronicles the incredible life of professor Irena Veisaite, a survivor of the murdeous Holocaust and Stalinism reign in Lithuania. She is today a cultural icon, uniting people of different ages, religions, nationalities from all over the world. As she approaches her 93th birthday and shows no signs of slowing down, we follow Irena as she addresses our contemporary issues and revisits her painful past. A film that shows that the power of love can overcome trauma – and transform it into the art of living.

Giedrė Žickytė, born in 1980, is a European Film Academy (EFA)-nominated film director and producer, and the recipient of the Lithuanian National Prize for Culture and Arts in 2022. Based in Vilnius, Lithuania, she founded the documentary film production company MOONMAKERS. Giedrė graduated with a Master’s degree in Visual Arts from Vilnius Art Academy in 2007. Her films have been screened at numerous international film festivals, winning over 30 awards and gaining international distribution. She has directed and produced documentaries such as Master and Tatyana, I’m Not From Here (co-directed with Maite Alberdi), and The Jump, which was selected as Lithuania's official entry for the Academy Awards.

Giedrė is a member of the European Film Academy and the Lithuanian Filmmakers Union, and an alumna of the Berlinale Talent Campus, CPH LAB, EURODOC, dok.incubator, and Producers on the Move at the Cannes Film Festival in 2024.

In 2021, Giedrė was honored with the Lithuanian Presidential Award - the Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas - for her contributions to Lithuanian cinema.