1944. After years of wandering through Nazi Germany and Europe, the German journalist Robert Ross seemed finally to have drawn his lucky ticket—ending up in quiet, tranquil America. But as it turned out, without money and with dubious documents, it’s not so easy to settle into a new life. In this impeccable and beautiful world, he is still an unwanted drifter—just one of many faceless shadows in paradise…
They entered the American paradise like shadows. People burned by the fires of World War II. Fugitives from every corner of Europe who lost their past. A neurotic beauty mannequin and a cynical writer who drinks heavily. A foolish actress and a brilliant surgeon. A desperate hero of the Resistance and a painfully optimistic businessman. What could they possibly have in common? The fragility of absurd immigrant existence. And the sacred hope that someday they will return home…