About the book: 2007 / They entered American paradise like shadows. People burned by the fire of World War II. Fugitives from all over Europe who have lost their past. A neurotic beauty model and a cynical, heavy-drinking writer. A foolish actress and a brilliant surgeon. A desperate hero of the Resistance and an achingly optimistic businessman. What could such different people have in common? The fragility of the absurd emigrant existence. And the holy hope of someday returning home…