Waterland
DramaMysterybased on novel or book1970sfamily historyteachermemoryhigh school teacherhistory teachernorfolkpittsburgh, pennsylvania
A meditative, memory-haunted exploration of one man's unraveling as he excavates his family's past and his own fractured identity through classroom storytelling.
The story of a mentally anguished high school history teacher going through a complete reassessment of his life. His method for reassessing his life is to narrate it to his class and interweave in it three generations of his family's history.
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