The line finally reaches to Casablanca on the coast of neutral French Morocco, the setting for the film, where refugees (unless they are wealthy or influential enough to acquire quick-exit visas) are victimized by predatory, corrupt Vichy bureaucrats:And so a torturous, round-about refugee trail sprang up.Cobby serves himself a drink of liquor and toasts as he rationalizes:Well, here""s to the drink habit.This superb film was not nominated for a single Academy Award.Plot SynopsisDuring the opening scrolling prologue after the credits, Hellinger (in voice-over) apologetically informs the audience that he film ("a memory") is based upon facts, real people and events that he covered as a newsman during the 1920s - when Prohibition, speakeasies and gangster life pervaded the land:FOREWORDIt may come to pass that, at some distant date, we will be confronted with another period similar to the one depicted in this photoplay.[When the agents didn""t report in as usual, the CIA was notified, and it ordered the FBI to send in hostage rescue teams...Is that all here is to it?...Gosh, what was everybody talking about?...Well, I""m glad it""s over.For a while, I was afraid I might die before it happened.Had a wreck, or some deal like that.A budding sociopath, Kit ignores her feelings and she realizes that he doesn""t care about anything she says.