The Fusgeyers (Yiddish for "foot-goers") were Jews who fled persecution in Romania in the early 1900s in order to find refuge in the New World.
One hundred years later, Culiner, an intrepid walker, retraces their steps across Romania on foot in the search for lost remnants of this epic journey. She continues her quest through western European cities, following the Fusgeyers' journey from the Romanian/Hungarian border
to the port of Liverpool, England, and then to Canada.