THE horrors of past conflict and their fall out in the present is the subject matter of this Canadian offering from Atom Egoyan.

It tells the story of a director (Charles Aznavour) attempting to make a period drama based on the 1915 genocide of the Armenian people by Turkish forces. It also details the trauma of a biographer (Arsinee Khanjian) forced to confront a painful family situation following the publication of her book about Armenian painter Arshile Gorky - a survivor of one of the Turkish pogroms in which two million Armenians were murdered.

Moving backwards and forwards in time, Egoyan, himself an Armenian, examines history from a contemporary perspective in his most personal film to date.