We Keep Coming Back

Real-life son and mother – Michael Rubenfeld and Mary Berchard, both descendants of Polish-Jewish Holocaust survivors – together attempt to capture the truth of a Polish-Jewish reality that keeps changing and is near impossible to contain. Mary’s health started to fail, and so in a desire to grow close to his mother, Michael proposed that they go to Poland together to find their family’s roots. When in Poland, and accompanied by their guide, Katka Reszke, they discover that there is a new generation of unexpected Jews living there, and a far more complex version of contemporary Poland than they had considered. We Keep Coming Back is a complex, soul-baring, and often very humorous performance that takes audiences deep into the genuine traumas of the post-war generations using documentary storytelling, archival video and projection design.