In 1932 Joseph F. Balogh leaves his familiar surroundings in Bridgeport, CT and moves with his parents to a rural north-eastern town in Hungary. It is here that this young boy until adulthood encounters adventures in boarding schools, in the Hungarian army under Nazism, as a prisoner of war, in hiding, and as a journalist. Emotionally and ethically exhausted, Balogh defects from this Communist country and flees illegally to London, England in 1965 with his daughter. Hoping to find asylum as a refugee, he soon learns that because he was born in the West, his status remains tenuous. Nationless for two years, with the fear of deportation back to Hungary, Balogh discovers a solution to his situation. Once again in America, his adventures continue in a new way.