Israel

On 22 April 1962 what remains of Göran Rosenberg’s family board a train to Venice, the first step of their passage from his native Sweden to Israel. Transplanted into a nation only a few months older than him, he is first enchanted by its vitality, imprinted by its ideals. It marks the beginning of a lifetime's journey across the promised land and into its past, the utopian visions and desperate fears that went into Zionism, as well as the violence and dispossession of it