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Synopsis
'Why aren't you painting yourself a loaf of bread?' Arnold Daghani was asked in May 1943 by one of the guards at Mikhailowka, the Nazi slave labour camp in Ukraine. Like other Jewish prisoners, the artist and his wife went in constant fear of starvation and death, but Daghani persisted in making a record of their sufferings by means of striking watercolours and a cryptic diary, secretly composed in English in a shorthand notebook. It was indeed his artistic gifts that earned them the right to spend a few nights outside the barbed wire, enabling them to make a daring escape.