Incubator

A documentary film about the transformation of an exile community nearly twenty years after the end of the Cold War This film is about growing up in an exile community in the West developing a doubleidentity and becoming a hyphenatedsomebody Its about learning to have two homelands at the same time one in real life and the other imagined and maintained by parents who were forced to flee It is about a first generation of children whose parents lived abroad longer than they originally expected to and who never really assimilated The story is told through an unlikely albeit dramatic reunion one which involves a Hungarian rock opera performed in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California by a cast of 40something HungarianAmericans The original cast including the films director meet in the exact same spot they performed Stephen the king 25 years ago as Hungarian scouts during summer camp in 1984