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Border Crossing

In the sweltering heat during the summer of 1989, the last year of Communism in Eastern Europe, a family waits in a long line at the Czechoslovakian-Polish border. As they inch closer to the guards and tensions mount, release finally comes from an unexpected moment of humanity.