After a lone trip to Chernobyl in 2005, Donald Weber returned to the abandoned site of the disaster and spent the next six years in Russia and Ukraine recording the ruins of the unstoppable storm we call history. Travelling and living with ordinary people who had endured much and survived everything, he began to see the modern state as a primitive and bloody sacrificial rite of unnamed power.

Interrogations is the result of a personal quest to uncover the hidden meaning of the bloody twentieth century. In dialogue with the writer Larry Frolick, whose own ancestors had been decimated in the final months of the Second World War, he insistently and provocatively addresses his questions both to living survivors and to the ghosts of the state's innumerable victims, resurrecting their final hours by taking their point of view.