In Kyiv, Ukraine, the loser Anatoli is a penniless unemployed translator and his wife is leaving him.
When Anatoli meets by chance his former friend Dima, he offers one thousand dollars to Anatoli to commit perjury in order that his boss gets the divorce from his wife.
Further, he suggests that Anatoli hires the hit man Kostia to assassin his wife's boyfriend.
Anatoli is drunk and accepts the deal. However he regrets and he puts the contract on himself instead.
When Anatoli meets the prostitute Vika, a.k.a. Lena, he changes his mind and hires the killer Ivan to protect him.
Ivan kills Kostia and Anatoli learns that he was married with Marina and with a baby boy.
Now Anatoli feels guilty and seeks out Marina to sympathize with her.