A teacher is cast out of his homeland for refusing to sign a loyalty oath.
On his journey toward a new homeland, he is joined by a prostitute who, by her nature, cannot sign any pledge of loyalty.
Between two borders, the two encounter a pair of clowns who switch roles.
During this journey, the teacher struggles with questions of identity, partnership, parenthood, loneliness and hope, life and death.
In the background, a perpetual war demands that everyone fall into line.
Reality unfolds as a comic-tragic episode on the stage of the theater.