Based on the best-selling novel by award-winning writer Anne Michaels, Fugitive Pieces is a powerful, poetic, and emotionally-charged drama about love, loss and liberation.
The film tells the story of Jakob Beer, a man whose life is haunted by his childhood experiences during WWII. As a child in Poland he is orphaned during wartime then saved by a compassionate Greek archeologist.
Years later, having moved to Canada, the grown-up Jakob has become a writer struggling to articulate his childhood horrors, haunted by the mystery of his sister’s fate.
After his troubled emotions lead to the break-up of his marriage to the free-spirited Alex. Jakob must exorcise the ghosts of his past if he is to close a traumatic chapter of his life and find beauty in the present.