"Terrific ... Combines comic brilliance with a gripping portrait of a family caught between two worlds," according to the Sunday Times. In the summer of 1978, the Krasnansky family—quarreling, tired, and confused—arrives in Rome. Along with thousands of other Soviet Jewish refugees, they await passage to a new home in the West. Escaping communism, however, proves difficult, especially since some members of the Krasnansky family insist on taking their ideals with them. The situation worsens when their American sponsor abandons them, and they find themselves trapped. What follows is a tragicomic tale of reckless brothers and patient sisters, ailing parents and innocent children, love affairs and criminal connections, of a strangely distraught family and a constantly searching people, on their epic quest for home.