THE QUEST
When executive producer Albert Barry and his film crew flew into Lithuania in the Spring of 1999, they had no idea what to expect. They had a list of Lithuanian place names which were real tongue twisters and a road map of the country. A translator met them at the airport late at night, and the next morning they set out into the Lithuanian countryside, hoping the wooden synagogues which had been discovered a few years earlier by an Israeli research team would still be standing.

Not only did they manage to find the six known to exist, they found another four by interviewing dozens of Lithuanians with knowledge on the subject. The countryside was carpeted with dandelions the size of chrysanthemums. Tulips and daffodils and jonquils sprouted in front yard gardens, traveling down narrow country roads, they saw a landscape which was timeless - fields being plowed with horses, people drawing water from wells.