In 1911, a tiny, lone 15-years-old, who was too poor to own a pair of socks came to America, like 650,000 others that year. Frank Popiolek became a ... barber. “Uncle Frank” is a man of a disappearing generation who fulfilled the old dream of becoming a free citizen, in a free land. But he is the one “melting-pot” didn’t melt, couldn’t melt. This is a very personal, often heart-wrenching portrait by film-maker Marian Marzynski who sees Frank as a founding father of a kind too often forgotten in the hurry and self-centredness of the present day. This is an American success story unlike the usual.