A Voyage of Discovery to Tarakan

Karel Doing follows the route taken by his uncle Ed Huis in t Veld who was executed in 1942 by Japanese forces on the Indonesian island of Tarakan In this intimate travelogue Doing visits the harbours where the mail ships stopped on their way to the Dutch Indies Amsterdam Genoa Port Said and films in Jakarta Surabaya Borneo and the oilrich island of Tarakan Fragments from his uncles letters archival footage from the extensive Eye Filmmuseum collection and the directors diary are combined in a fascinating mix