Life is tough these days in Kiev if you're no good at hunting down the mighty dollar. And Anatoli isn't! He's an intellectual that the new "Capitalist" jungle has left out in the cold. To survive, he goes from odd job to odd job. Unsurprisingly, his wife winds up leaving him for another. But Anatoli hasn't the stomach to react: sickened by it all, he lapses into passivity and chooses suicide. Yet, what do you know? He has the chance to organise his own suicide, at the hand of another! Hit men are ten-a-penny in Kiev. Yet, once again, he fails... It's the beginning of a series of misunderstandings and bizarre encounters which may help him fit into this savage world. But can an honest intellectual ever be cured?