At 50, Jude Valiente, a neurotic New Yorker, is struggling to get over the loss of his former girlfriend when by chance he meets a woman from Berlin and begins living part of the year abroad. He takes us across Europe -- Spain, France, Germany, Poland, Ukraine and Russia. Each time he returns to New York, mobsters make his life hellish. But how bad is it really? Through travel, he triumphs over his actual and imaginary fears and rediscovers a positive outlook on life.