It is the summer of 1978, and the Krasnansky family, bickering, tired and confused, are supposed to be passing through. Welcome to Rome. But escaping Communism is not so easy, especially when some of the Krasnanskys insist on bringing it with them, and even more so when their sponsor in the USA lets them down and they find that they?re no longer passing through at all. Alongside thousands of other Soviet Jewish refugees ? among them criminals, dissidents and refuseniks ? they await passage to their new homes in the West. Welcome, then, to the waiting room of your life, and to a tragic yet comic tale of reckless brothers and long-suffering sisters, ailing parents and innocent children, of love affairs and criminal liaisons, of a wonderfully troubled family and a perpetually wandering people, and their epic search for a home: somewhere, anywhere ? or Canada, as it turns out. On the contrary, they?re stuck. 2011