Director Sergio Oksman happened upon a box of personal effects on a sidewalk. Inside, he found a remarkable puzzle: decades worth of personal photographs, journal entries, and videos documenting the Modlins’s peculiar family dynamic. Investigating the father, mother, and son beyond the boundaries of the box, Oksman constructs a narrative on which to hang these bizarre images and excerpts. Elmer Modlin had a small role in a pivotal scene of the film Rosemary’s Baby. Margaret Modlin was an extravagant painter who kept her home and artwork shielded from the light of day. This trip through their lives, with a stranger as the tour guide, shows how the pictures we leave behind can dictate our histories.  ST