Among the methods a textbook for learning Croatian as a foreign language recommends are: role playing, reading aloud, the staging of fairy tales and plays or writing postcards. The book, dating from 1968, is aimed mainly at the Croatian diaspora in the USA and concerns the visit of an émigré family to Croatia in order to introduce their children to their »cultural heritage«. In Postcards, director Ana Hušman falls back on the dialogues and methods set out in the text book and has them performed by amateur actors and professional actors.