Communist witch hunts

In 1950s Washington, Walter Kotlar becomes a casualty of the era's witch hunts when an ambitious congressman accuses him of being a spy. Kotlar denies it, and the hearings drag on — until the congressman's star witness plunges to her death from a hotel window. Kotlar flees the country that night and never returns, leaving his family to pick up the pieces of their lives.

Twenty years later, Kotlar's wife and son have left the past behind and settled comfortably into their new lives. Then one day, Nick Kotlar learns that his father wants to come home.