CRUCIALPLAY

On the eve of World War II, Marta, a pianist from Lviv, receives a scholarship to New York City to compose a symphony for one of the world’s great concert halls. With her one-year-old son, she enters the vibrant world of jazz clubs while negotiating a contract with a major record label.

After a mysterious accident, Marta suddenly finds herself in Poland under Nazi German and Soviet occupation. Dreams of prisons, labour camps, exile and a desperate struggle with a Soviet tormentor begin to bleed into reality.

Still composing The Way Home, Marta throws fragments of the score from the cattle car transporting her, hoping strangers will preserve her music. Is her escape a heroic attempt to save her son—or a creation of her mind?

As the two realities become impossible to separate, Marta must confront what it truly means to find her way home. The answer will change her understanding of the life she is fighting to recover.