In an apparently empty airport, a Jewish family has gathered to greet one of its members who has come there to be with them. However, the airport is actually the ante-room of Death, and the family member is a recently deceased American survivor of the Holocaust. Although the party begins by greeting the man with warmth and affection, the gathering soon degenerates into a squabble about why most of those assembled failed to heed the warnings about the Holocaust and flee Germany.

La nuit va tomber lorsqu'un quadrimoteur atterrit sur la piste d'un aéroport de campagne. Un seul passager descend: Joe, le dernier survivant d'une famille juive, la famille Falsch. C'est avec elle qu'il a rendez-vous cette nuit: quarante ans après son départ de Berlin pour New York en 1938. Une nuit de retrouvailles, de fête par-dela la vie et la mort...

Un aereo atterra in un aeroporto di campagna. Scende un solo passeggero, Joe, accolto da Lili, la sua fidanzata tedesca. Nella hall, tra i diversi membri della famiglia di Joe si scatena una tormentata resa dei conti che ritorna continuamente sul 1933, anno dell’ascesa di Hitler e dell’inizio delle persecuzioni antisemite.