When I was leaving for college my aunt Dana told me I had a cousin Id never met who was matriculating in the same year as me We shared classes and had friends in common but for some strange reason I never introduced myself All during college and then into the real world through a decade of overlapping connections we never met This film is an examination of that hesitation and an attempt to understand why I never made the easiest connection in the world until it was too late Through archival footage and reenactment of the era in question IDAC is ultimately a documentary about what was happening on an unconscious level and how distant a relative can be even when theyre right in front of your face
