Traces: Traversing the Past follows four seasoned travelers, Gediminas, Viktoras, Darius, and Vigimantas, across more than 500 kilometres of hostile Siberian taiga by foot and inflatable canoe. But the ordeal is more than physical: they journey to the long-forgotten lands where thousands of deportees struggled to survive over sixty years ago, connecting a horrific past to a modern will to remember it. Why This Film Matters: Some expeditions are about summits; this one is about memory. Traces uses the language of adventure to confront the history of Soviet deportation, insisting that remembering is itself an act worth suffering for.