Can trauma be inherited? It is this question that sets Alex Halberstadt off on a quest to name and acknowledge a legacy of family trauma, and to end a century-old cycle of estrangement. His search takes him across the troubled, enigmatic land of his birth. In Ukraine he tracks down his paternal grandfather-- most likely the last living bodyguard of Joseph Stalin-- to reckon with the ways in which decades of Soviet totalitarianism shaped three generations...