Odesa in the early 2000s. A few local residents go to the cemetery to remove the monuments of famous Odesa citizens. All along the way, they encounter phenomena and people characteristic of the city.

After Mick Nich, a 1930's Chicago gangster, sells out his own gang to the police, the Mafia hires the best hitman in town, Johnny Pollack, to follow him to Odessa, USSR. Upon arrival, Pollack loses his memory and goes on various adventures with a group of thick-headed Odessa locals who think he is a harmless butterfly collector.