Paper Bridge is a journey through Ruth Beckermann's own family's history and at the same time the story of Central Europe's Jews and of a region. It takes her from Vienna, where her grandmother survived the war and the nazis in hiding and to which her mother returned from Israel, to the landscapes of her father's childhood: the Bukowina, once part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

Paper Bridge is the second part of a trilogy about Jewish identity. Three films - Return to Vienna, Paper Bridge and Towards Jerusalem - in which travelling constitutes in varying ways both form and content.