Tamar told her daughter one story about who she was: a fiery redhead, a fighter in the Israeli underground, a woman who insisted she had never been a Holocaust victim. Marisa Fox-Bevilaqua grew up with no reason to doubt it. Then, twenty years after her mother's death, a conversation with a great-aunt who was dying opens a door that Tamar had kept firmly shut.

What follows is a reporter's work as much as a daughter's: combing archives, following faint trails through records that official histories overlooked, and finding women across continents who had their own reasons to stay silent. Fox-Bevilaqua braids documents, testimony and on-the-ground reporting, with animation that gives shape to memory, into an account as rigorous as it is tender.

My Underground Mother recovers a truth that institutions left buried, and asks what we inherit from the stories our parents cannot bring themselves to tell.

Film screening followed by Q&A with director Marisa Fox-Bevilaqua, moderated by Franklin Foer, staff writer for The Atlantic.