Focusing on the search for family history and identity, Saba and Savta is a personal and participatory documentary film about a Jewish-Italian couple, married for 50 plus years, searching for their lost family history while preserving what culture they know, before their memory dissipates. Sheldon and Joan Treibitz, residents of Lake County, FL for 20 years, travel back to Brooklyn, New York to visit the places of their birth, where they raised their children and where their family members are laid to rest. Joan and Sheldon take viewers and their granddaughter, Shelley, the director of the film, on a journey of acceptance and the chronicling of a family's history as they revisit their past lives in Brooklyn, and their family's first documented history in the United States, Ellis Island; Rewriting and sharing their past with the future generation of their family.