As Hitler\'s government takes control of the Sudetenland, a mostly German-speaking region of Czechoslovakia, Jack Adler\'s family is forced to flee to Prague in 1938.
Seeking solace in his Jewish faith, he spends his final years in a desperate search for atonement..
But the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion, the overthrow of the democratically elected President Allende in Chile, and a final tragic operation in Ecuador serve to shatter his illusions on the nobility of US policies in the Americas.
Assigned to the Cuba Desk, he eagerly takes on the White House mission of preventing the spread of Communism to the Western Hemisphere.
The Agency is the perfect place for him; he can serve his newly adopted country while combating the very fascism that had twice overwhelmed his country of birth.
Soon after he transfers to the newly established Central Intelligence Agency.
In America Jack\'s ability to speak several languages enables him to join the Army.
His family remains in Ecuador, hoping to return to a Czechoslovakia free from the control of the Soviet Union.
A chance part-time job at the American Embassy leads to Jack\'s immigration to the US.
Only near the war\'s end and after enduring untold dangers, the entire family finally reunites in Quito, Ecuador.
Later, when the German Wehrmacht invades the whole of Czechoslovakia, the family miraculously escapes by heading in different directions.
As Hitler\'s government takes control of the Sudetenland, a mostly German-speaking region of Czechoslovakia, Jack Adler\'s family is forced to flee to Prague in 1938
