“When I was seven, my mother was magic: she could be in two places at once.” This is how Elitza Gueorgueiva’s story about Bulgaria’s recent history begins, on the border between two worlds: communist Bulgaria and the uncertainty that followed the fall of the old regime. Gueorgueiva’s mother, a television journalist, hosted a program which became popular during the 1980s and the 1990s. Now her daughter edits excerpts from that program together with her own commentary about historical change and about television as a medium that has preserved the breath of that change. The outcome is an unflinchingly accurate, tongue-in-cheek essay film which reminds us of a historical era with all its confusion and exhilaration, from linguistic clichés (“democracy has exploded”) through to the laughable identity dilemmas arising from a sudden exposure to the Other: “How could we be better than the Americans when we keep stealing each other’s windscreen wipers?”