A documentary. Eighty years after his liberation from Buchenwald, the man behind Elie Wiesel's searing and widely read memoir Night. Told largely through his own words and eloquent voice, this film seeks to penetrate to the heart of the known and unknown Elie Wiesel (1928-2016) - his passions, his conflicts and his legacy as one of the most public survivors of the trauma of the Holocaust. With access to personal archives, interviews and animation, the film illuminates Wiesel’s biography as a survivor, writer, teacher and public figure.