75 years after iconic Soviet writer Isaac Babel's wrongful execution, his grandson comes closer to the elusive truths of his heritage. In Finding Babel, Andrei Malaev-Babel confronts lingering traces of a turbulent history that echo in his grandfather's subversive writing and in the conflicts and climate of todays Ukraine and Russia. Babels life story and his fiction are woven into Andreis search with ethereal animation that puts viewers, like Babels readers, somewhere between fantasy and reality.