00:00So I was writing this set in Mongolia, and my family's from Poland, and all the things that the characters are talking about in the movie is just, you know, very autobiographical.
00:09But I was setting this thing in Mongolia, and it just was not going well.
00:14And then this ad popped up online for Auschwitz tours, and then in parentheses, with lunch.
00:22And these, like, you know, I didn't think those four words would ever change my life.
00:26But I took the guys out of Mongolia, and I reimagined the thing as them going on this, you know, strange thing that actually exists, which is like a yuppie tour of, you know, historical trauma.
00:39I thought, oh, that's so interesting.
00:41So now I could have these two guys whose interpersonal strife can be, you know, against the backdrop of real historical trauma.
00:47And suddenly these things could kind of be in conversation with each other in a way that made me feel like the story is rich enough to be a movie.
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