Anna is an American Jewish psychotherapist who lives in Vienna. Nearly twenty-five years after her father's untimely death, she is plagued by nightmares and feels compelled to solve the enigma of his unpublished, autobiographical novella, Tell Marvin. Dan Rosenberg, a New York attorney, is approached by a widowed Holocaust survivor who begs him to represent her son, Marvin. After returning safely from the war in Vietnam, he had been arrested on drug charges and imprisoned in Franco's Spain. Although Marvin faces a harsh sentence, he is headstrong and reluctant to accept the clever escape plan...