At 50, Jude Valiente, a neurotic New Yorker, is struggling to get over the loss of his former girlfriend when he serendipitously meets a woman from Berlin and begins living part of the year abroad. He takes us to Spain, France, Germany, Poland, Ukraine and Russia, but mobsters in New York make his life hellish when he returns. Or are they? Through his travels, he triumphs over his actual and imaginary fears and rediscovers a positive outlook on life.
