Polish joke

by David Ives

"A comedy about ethnic identity and the eternal American search for 'roots.' Jasiu (thirtyish) is a Polish-American who has been taught not to value his own roots, so he decides to make his own roots, reinventing himself first as a sort of non-ethnic everyman, then as an 'Irishman.' Jasiu's adventures--alternately zany and heartbreaking--take him through a job interview with an Ur-Wasp; to an attempt to become a Catholic priest; to a flower shop where he can't get service because he is weirdly invisible; to a doomed love affair with a Jewish woman; to a wacky Irish travel agency where he...

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