In the spring of 1946, a mass grave was unearthed in the Hungarian village of Abda. Twenty-two decayed bodies were found sprawled in the pit. One of the bodies found in the grave was that of the poet Miklos Radnoti, shot into the grave by Hungarian fascists eighteen months earlier. Found in the front pocket of his coat was a small notebook soaked in his bodily fluids. It was laid out to dry in the sunlight and when examined later revealed the poets last poems carefully handwritten onto the ruled lines of the notebook. In the so-called Bor Notebook, Radnoti, through poetry, told the story of the last six months...
A film about the Hungrian poet Miklós Radnóti who was shot dead by the SS in 1944. He wrote poems in the camps of the labor service and on the march to Germany. He sent some of his poems to his wife, Fanni, in Budapest, others were discovered in his coat pocket when his corpse was found in a mass grave in 1946. Amongst the footage is a conversation with Radnoti's widow in Budapest.
סרט תיעודי. הקומיקאי טל פרידמן יוצא למסע בעקבות ההומור בשואה, שהיווה מנגנון הגנה עבור אלה שחוו על בשרם את זוועותיה. פרידמן משוחח עם קולגות, מומחים לנושא ועם ניצולים, שגם בתנאים לא אנושיים, שאבו מההומור את הכוח להמשיך. המסע מתחיל במשפחתו ובביתו בה השואה נכחה כל כול הזמן ומסתיים בבדיחות של ניצולים המסבירות שלא משנה מה יעשו לך בעולם הפיזי ההומור עוזר בהצלת הנפש.