Videotape testimony of Lucy F., who was born in Odesa, Russia (presently Ukraine) in 1916. She recounts her mother's death during her birth; moving to Estonia with her father; his remarriage; living in Berlin; attending school in Switzerland; her father's death; living in France with her stepmother who had remarried; her conversion to Catholicism; the outbreak of war; visiting relatives in Estonia; attending university in London; traveling to France; expulsion for sheltering German Jewish refugees; moving to Portugal where her step-parents lived; working for a Portuguese Jewish organization which helped refugees; obtaining documents to emigrate to the United States; emigrating in 1941; living in Jackonsville and New York; her postwar marriage; living in several countries; and working in the film industry. Mrs. F. shows photographs and discusses Lisbon's vibrant wartime artistic life.