To mark her 50th birthday filmmaker Lynne Sachs gathers a group of her contemporariesall New Yorkers but originally hailing from all corners of the globefor a weekend of recollection and reflection on the most lifealtering personal local and international events of the past half century creating what Sachs calls a collective distillation of our times Interspersed with poetry and flashes of archival footage this poignant reverie reveals how far beyond our control life is and how far we can go despite this