Lea Balint was born in Poland, in 1938. Having being taken out of the ghetto, she survived the Holocaust in a Franciscan convent near Warsaw. After the war, her father found her, and the two immigrated to Israel in 1950.
In 1984, Lea participated in an educational tour of death camps in Poland, during which she came to better understand her past. This experience motivated her to investigate the fate of children during the Nazi occupation. She explored dozens of archives around the world and studied loss of identity during the Holocaust. Lea’s research focuses on the thousands of children who stayed in convents and either forgot their Jewish roots or were never located by relatives or community members after the war.
So far, Lea has uncovered the identities and pasts of about 150 individuals.

This film tells her remarkable story, interwoven with the stories of two survivors whom Lea helped rediscover their past.