Filmmaker Jotja Bessems uncovers a surpressed history of her family in a South Limburg border town. She finds her uncle in tears at an eternal peace vigil, unable to tell his life story. Her aunt who has never been able to sleep. A collector with a garage museum and, in his eigthies, still is a passionate teacher. Baby clothes pierced with shrapnel is the only memento of a woman who never knew her family. And a German man who has been carrying the weight of guilt since childhood.

City on the Run unravels the story of the evacuation of Kerkrade at the end of World War 2 and what it means to be forced to leave your home. Why does no one remember this historical event? And what is the effect on how we see the present?
(Refugees Film Festival)