Olga is a
Ukrainian woman from
Eastern Ukraine, who lives with her mother and has a child. Her job as a
nurse does not pay well enough for her to support herself and her baby, and she gets a second job doing
internet pornography. She eventually leaves her homeland and travels to
Vienna, Austria, where she finds a job as a housekeeper at a rich family's home, where she also lives. The woman of the family suspects her of stealing and fires her. She is then employed as a cleaner at a geriatric hospital. She develops a relationship with an elderly man named Erich and he asks her to marry him. She accepts as she knows this will gain her Austrian citizenship. However, Erich dies of a heart attack before they can marry. Pauli is a young man from
Vienna,
Austria who lives with his mother and stepfather. He owns a large dog named Caeser and trains in
martial arts. He works as a
security guard at a shopping complex but is sacked after a gang of drunken
Turks cuff him with his handcuffs and strip him of his clothes. His girlfriend breaks up with him as she is afraid of his dog, and he owes money to a number of people including his stepfather, Michael. Michael then takes him along on a job in
Ukraine setting up video gambling machines. On the way there, they stop at an impoverished
Romani neighbourhood in
Košice, Slovakia, where Pauli tries to 'hire' a
prostitute. He fails to agree on a price with the Romani
pimps, and they chase him back to his van. When they arrive in
Uzhhorod, Ukraine, they rent a hotel room and try to pick up girls at a bar. When Pauli goes back to his room to borrow money from Michael to pay his tab, he finds that Michael has a prostitute. Michael insists Pauli watches him humiliate the prostitute before he can leave. The next day, Pauli leaves Michael's company and searches for work at a local market, where he fails to find any. The last we see of him is when he is walking along a long country road,
hitchhiking, either back to the West or further into Ukraine. == Cast ==