An émigré faces suppressed histories Zenius comes to Vilnius and hopes to explain his parents’ flight from their homeland. Lithuania itself is just waking to truths about the Holocaust and Gulag, suppressed during 50 years’ Soviet occupation. His parents were silent and traumatized. What happened? His personal world—in a temporary visit to a foreign city—begins to fall apart. Things happen that he cannot explain. Strange drawings. Why? A story of travel, family, and loss. Art by Tadas Gutauskas ( 40 photo illustrations. Cover design by Holly Russell.