The Memory Thief (2007): Cast & Plot

Lukas Mark Webber is a young tollbooth operator who lives a quiet, almost solitary life. He has little in the way of a social circle and spends much of his free time visiting his catatonic mother in a hospital. His routine is disrupted when a tollbooth customer tosses him a copy of Hitler’s Mein Kampf, an act that triggers a charged encounter with a Holocaust survivor, Zvi Allan Rich. The next day, that same survivor hands Lukas a videotape containing his testimony from the concentration camps, a gift that matters more than Lukas initially realizes. While scrolling through the newspaper and spotting the survivor’s obituary, Lukas becomes hooked on the idea of the man’s life and decides to attend the funeral.