The origin story of my mother's struggle with manic-depression (aka bipolar disorder): the rural prairie in the 1950s, an old boys’ club of “deciders,” a puzzling disease about which little was known.

Poland, peak of Covid-19 pandemic. Piotr due to lockdown and constant isolation suffers from depression. As an autotherapy he decides to try painting.

A Mother’s suicide leads the narrator on a quest to explore her Jewish lineage and her family’s immigration story over multiple generations, with open-water swimming becoming her way to come to terms with the present.