The documentary discovers the musicality of Georgia and presents its significance for this country. For it is in the lost and rediscovered songs and dances that Georgians preserve their very own identity and strength..
The world is small, but sometimes it's also quite big," a Georgian musician tells us at the beginning of Ruth Olshan's documentary "Like Air to Breathe". And with this size, Georgia, located between Europe and Asia in the Caucasus, is all too often forgotten. Yet the country has a culture that goes back a long way, which has manifested itself primarily in folk music passed down orally.—Jakkepoes