This film tells Victor Navorski's history gone in New York from the East Europe. While Victor flied in the plane, on his native land there was a revolution. Appearing in the international airport of a name of John Kennedi with the passport anywhere, it has no right to drive to the United States and should while away the days and nights in hotel of the airport while war in his native land will not end. Weeks and months are pulled, and Victor finds out, that the small world of the terminal can be filled with absurdity, generosity, ambitions, entertainments, desire to keep the status, intuitive insight and even love to charming stewardess Amelia. Victor manages to win sympathies of everything, except for one person - the official of airport Frenka of Dickson who counts his bureaucratic mistake, a problem which it cannot supervise but of which thirsts to get rid...