A moving 90-minute documentary about an astonishing Eurasian family for whom the past is indeed a foreign country – in more ways than one Sally Merrison, who so deeply renounced her background that she used to tell her children she came from Wales, returns to her native Burma as the subject of daughter Lindsey Merrison’s documentary "Our Burmese Days". After making a life for themselves in England, Sally and her brother Bill revisit their homeland for the first time since childhood, and their antithetical views of memory, identity and their Eurasian heritage form an unresolvable dialogue which reflects on both personal and political history. »The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there« Lindsey Merrison on her Film: »(...) Our Burmese Days is far from your typical trip down memory lane: you won't see any colourful markets and there's not an old school in sight. Whilst my mother vehemently struggled to keep her lost memories to herself, my uncle surrendered himself to a continual flood of remembrance, admissions and even philosophical insights. Rather like the splenetic and the sentimental travellers of 18th century picaresque novels, Bill and Sally regularly disagreed with each other, me and the camera, about their common history - hopelessly enmeshed in the dilemma of cultural identity and the burden of those early years. Burma isn't caught in the tourist gaze either, rather, it's the past that's the foreign country, for, although ostensibly we are retracing the family's flight from the invading Japanese during the last war, in reality we are penetrating further and further into my mother's heart of darkness.«