The German clothing supplier sends his distribution guy Kroll, now divorced from Katja Riemann, to streamline the company operation in Kemerovo in Siberia. There Kroll finds the locals operating out of a market stall and he and the film are sidetracked, when he hears throat singer Men and follows her to her home community, shedding his hang ups in the process. We get a gay translator, Agro ex-husbands, steam baths, a sanctified Balalaika and Shaman ceremonies Handsome film which is unable to redeem it's central cliché, despite the talent and skill deployed.