Recent research in the fields of behavioral psychology and neuroscience has proven that memory is not a static record of an earlier event--far from it. In fact, every memory is a mutable story that we amend and fiddle with every time we remember that particular incident. Each of us has an inner conflict between what actually happened and the story we tell ourselves. There is no one truth of one moment. The truth of any particular moment can only be constructed from the faulty and selective memory banks of everyone involved. The truth can only be found somewhere between those stories that people have made up for themselves.
I was drawn to this story of three brothers because I feel that it best expresses the daily conflict we all face between the reliability of memory and the satisfying stories we tell ourselves about our lives. Memory is a personal story of a personal experience, and we never know what really happened when we hear a story. In this film, we have three versions of the same events, providing a deeper and dramatic understanding of the human brain and its emotional response to trauma. My hope is that the film will illuminate not only the lives of the three brothers, but also how we all deal with memory and how physical facts can be twisted into a story right before our eyes, live and on camera. I hope it will also show how the manufacture of a new memory can allow us to redefine ourselves and affect the rest of our lives.
— Tamar Tal Anati, Director