In the summer of 1968, three friends, Réb, Makay and Nikita decided to leave Hungary. Only Makay obtained his passport, but Reb stole it and took off for the U.S. Seventeen years later, he comes back to Hungary with a teen-age daughter, Marylou, and starts in with his usual underhanded, sly schemes for making money. His idea is to leave his daughter to her mother and take advantage of Makai's ingenuity to steal from his father's old friend an invention that would revolutionize agriculture in U.S. He eventually will go back with his daughter to the land of the failed dreams.