The Weight of Remembering

Overview

Curiosity about a strange heirloom —an ancient 3-ounce lead fishing sinker he inherited from his Spanish immigrant grandfather— is what drives the fictionalized narrator of this documentary to travel from his New York home to Tampa, Florida. And before long, thanks to the amazing cast of Tampa old-timers he encounters there, the narrator finds himself immersed in the sights, sounds, textures, tastes and smells of a world on the verge of disappearing.