Matt Konop is greeted with banners in Czech reading Liberated By One of Our Own as he enters the main square of Domazlice. Word had spread that an American officer with roots to the region had returned to bring freedom. The experience also freed Konop of his unease of his Czech background. Although he was born in America, his first language was Czech, the only language spoken on the farm in rural Wisconsin. Bringing freedom at the end of World War Two to the lands of his grandparents, Konop's conception of his own identity is transformed -- The Accidental Hero.