Jerzy gave up on his hometown of Warsaw a long time ago. There’s nothing to keep him there. He makes ends meet with shady business deals, saving money for his dream of moving to America. On one of his last walks through the city, he bumps into a few friends and ends up meeting Eva, a waitress.

This drifting journey from Communist Poland to New York via West Berlin, driven by the ideals of the American Dream, is a neorealist and poetic portrait of European disenchantment. Filmed in 1988 just before the fall of the Wall, Michael Klier’s film presents a search for hope in a city of ruins.