In this story of converging lives, a man whose father was killed by Nazis seeks to find his murderer and a Lithuanian involved in war crimes lives in hiding in New York. A young Austrian nicknamed Ratz longs to kill his politician father, at least in the spiteful computer game he has designed, which allows others to personalize it with images of their own fathers. Dreams of patricide are one way for Ratz's generation to deal with the corruption and amorality of their parents and grandparents. When a former girlfriend invites Ratz to come to the U.S. on a mysterious task, he finds another.