His Bastille

What happens to a person when whole decades are torn out of his memory This is a story of life put on repeat story of permanent loss and discovery My father lives in Donetsk and started losing his memory when armed hostilities began Now he cant remember the latest 10 minutes of his life I come home after I havent seen my parents for a year I talk to Dad trying to pull out some of his memories through music books and family stories We can hear the shelling far off But that is not the worst even harder is the loss of memory gradually taking my Dad away from his family and his past squeezing the world to a few simple and important things