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Passengers of different nationalities meet in the cramped cabin of a ship crossing the ocean in December, bound for New York. Amid card games, arguments, and reconciliations, their personalities and conflicting notions of homeland emerge. The return of the Greek, Prodobobobobolos, to the city where he earned his living through years of hard labor is accompanied by memories of the past. His story reveals the effects of poverty, war, and the indifference of the great city.