Andrei and his father, Vasile, live in communist Romania. Unexpectedly they recive news from Petru, Vasile's bother who has presumed dead after an escape attempt years before. Petrus had been living in Hawaii all this time and on his death bed, has left Andrei and Vasile a big inheritance. They cannot enter in its possesion,however, as the concept of private property does not exist in communist Romania. The only alternative left to them is to try and claim their inheritance via a free country