Life is waiting... After arriving at New York's JFK airport, Viktor Navorski (Tom Hanks) gets unwittingly tied in bureaucratic glitches that make it impossible for him to return to his home country or enter the U.S.! Now, caught up in the richly complex and amusing world inside the airport, Viktor makes friends, gets a job, finds romance with a flight attendant (Catherine Zeta-Jones) and ultimately discovers America itself...