In 1970, a Soviet fishing vessel was anchored off the coast of America, when a Lithuanian seaman jumped from it to the deck of a US Coast Guard boat, seeking political asylum. But in a series of miscommunications, the coast guard sent him back to his mother ship … Simas Kudirka has often told the story his spontaneous attempt to flee the Soviet Union, which sent him to Siberia, but also eventually to sunny Florida. Director Giedrė Žickytė does a masterful job of listening to Kudirka and illustrating this curious Cold War tale with historical TV news stories, witness interviews, excerpts from films, and re-enactments. Her film is a portrait of a man who fell into the machinery of the Soviet justice system, and burst into the headlines in the US press. Celebrated as a hero by the Americans, he became a pawn in the game of the superpowers, although all he really sought was personal happiness.