Where are we? Who are we? La Robe depicts a family between continents, between epochs, between the extroverted modern world, and the introverted traditional world, or the introverted modern world, and the extroverted traditional world. Advances in communications have changed so dramatically over the last decades that what was once a village is today the globe presenting two problems. The first is that the Globe is far too large to support of village, and the second is that a village is far too small to support the military industrial communications complex that has cannibalized our everyday village existences.

In this small apartment, on this day, a grandmother and grand-daughter are discussing the wisdom of wearing an extroverted dress versus an introverted pair of slacks. The grandmother perhaps isn’t as aware of the communications revolution going on throughout the world rendering small town and village life obsolete while the granddaughter probably isn’t aware of life before cell phones and Internet when people still look at each other in the eye to resolve differences, and to forge relationships (without the conduit of the computer, and the send button). This film captures this conundrum in a very humorous and touching manner. Hopefully we will see more from this talented director soon.