Photographic Memory

Widowed during World War II, a mother takes her infant son and flees the stifling world of her in-laws to start over in rural Vermont. “Photographic Memory” follows the boy’s struggles as he grows up in two very different cultures – one, the urbane world of his paternal grandmother, peopled with artists, publishers and financiers, and the other, a small, tight-knit Vermont community of farmers, loggers and tradesmen. David must reconcile the expectations of his German-Jewish grandmother and those of his new Quebecois-Catholic family. The differences come to a head the summer he takes a “grand tour” in the company of his grandmother. Here he breaks the news that he plans to postpone college and instead work on a chainsaw crew in Vermont’s remote Northeast Kingdom.