This tour de farce of bizarre exploits and odd misadventures chronicles an American's nearly seven-decade search to find his place in the world. It asks: where is home and how do we know we have found it? The journey goes from the mean streets of New York City to the surreal world of post-Communist Poland and then the epic weirdness of Bangkok, where he first tries his hand at stand-up comedy " the last gasp of a drowning man trying to fulfill a childhood ambition. And now Berlin, where the journey continues.