When you are stranded in an airport and your visa is no longer valid because your country is no more due to a coup. Viktor Navorski finds himself in this predicament. He may not enter the U.S. and he may not return home. Because of the coup his passport is no longer valid. So he lives at the airport. At first he returns carts to collect a few coins with which to feed himself. He befriends Enrique Cruz (Diego Luna) who is a food service worker and provides meals in exchange for help meeting an immigration officer, Dolores Torres (Zoe Zaldaña). The conflict in this story is created by Frank Dixon (Stanley Tucci) who is the head of the U.S. Customs and seems to take pride in causing grief for Navorski. Navorski also meets and woos a flight attendant, Amelia Warren (Katherine Zeta-Jones). He also befriends Gupta Rajan (Kumar Pallana) who is a janitor, but in actuality is an illegal immigrant. A theme is why does Navorski want to visit America. Dixon wants to find out, and even interrogates Warren to find out. Finally Navorski reveals he wants to get the signature of a jazz musician.
A funny part of the show is that Navorski actually gets a job in the airport working construction. He build a fountain and does many different tasks.
Political issues finally resolve, and Dixon tells him he can go home; but not enter the United States. Dixon sys he will persecute his friends if he does not go strait home. Rajan gives himself up to convince him to finish his dream. He does this, and then returns to catch a flight home.
This story follow rather loosely the story of Mehran Nasseri who lived in the Paris airport for 18 years. This is a good show telling the human spirit and the will to survive in difficult circumstances.
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