They entered an American paradise like shadows. People scorched by the fire of World War II. Emigrants from every corner of Europe who have lost their past. A neurotic beauty—fashion model—and a cynical writer who drinks heavily. A foolish actress and a wonderful surgeon. A desperate Resistance hero and a painfully optimistic businessman. What could possibly be in common among such different people? The fragility of an absurd immigrant existence. And a sacred hope that someday they will return home…