The Essay - Freedom - Episode 5

Writer and journalist Michael Goldfarb tells the story how he was taught by the dissident writers of Russia under Glasnost and his translator in Iraq during the American invasion what 'perfect freedom' can really mean. Are the novelists, playwrights and screenwriters who adapt their work to make a living in western countries really as free as the writers who toil in secrecy, never expecting their work to be published? Michael's visits to Moscow and Northern Iraq and his experience in New York forced him to revise his understanding of what being free really means.