How It All Goes Down
It is 1919 and an unnamed male character is traveling from Budapest—where he "suffered very much" (bummer)—through Italy en route to Switzerland. He has only a small piece of cloth saying that he's a comrade who suffered "under the Whites in Budapest" and requesting other comrades to aid him. What a way to travel, right? It works, though, and other Communists offer him food and help him on his way.
The comrade enjoys his time in Italy, especially the artwork, though suffice it to say that he is not a fan of Mantegna. And despite all he's seen, he remains hopeful about the possibility of a communist revolution, which he thinks will start in Italy. He travels briefly with the narrator, but then continues on into Switzerland; when the narrator last heard of him, he was in jail.
The end—of the unnamed young man's journey, of the narrator's knowledge about him, and of the story.