For being unable to find any decent job, an unconventional young man of working-class background gives up of all sorts of employment, and accompanied by his girlfriend, he tells his story in front of film cameras.

In 1939, Czech diplomat Jan Masaryk flees to the United States to escape his recent past: Germany has invaded Czechoslovakia and he is now a man with no nation; because, as the Czechoslovak ambassador in London, he failed to win the support of the British and could not avert the fall of his country and the outbreak of the World War II.