In this revealing 'psycho-geography' Dennis Marks makes a journey through the eastern borderlands of Europe to learn about the elusive writer Joseph Roth & the world in which he lived The result is a riveting & involving documentary that reunites Roth with his creative landscape Joseph Roth best-known as the author of the novel The Radetsky March & the non-fiction work The Wandering Jews was one of the most seductive disturbing & enigmatic writers of the twentieth century Born in 1894 in the Habsburg Empire in what is now Ukraine & dying in Paris in 1939 he was a perpetual displaced person a traveller a prophet a compulsive liar & a man who covered his tracks Through the Eastern borderlands of Europe Dennis Marks explores the spiritual geography of a still neglected master & uncovers the truth about Roth's lost world