As the gang drives across the Russian landscape, they encounter corruption, violence, poverty, and various situations characterizing the bleakness and challenges of small-town life in post-Soviet Russia.

Considered to be not only a crime drama but also a critique of the policies of Boris Yeltsin, Bimmer depicts the economic crisis that followed Russia's sudden transition to a free market economy, and with it, a lost generation of men who grow up in a world ruled by criminal gangs and corrupt law enforcement.

[1] Four members of an underground car theft ring named Kostya (nicknamed "Cat"), Ramah, Killa and Dimon get into serious trouble while stealing a 1995 BMW 750i from an important member of the secret police as revenge for the assault of Dimon and the impounding of his Mercedes-Benz E-Class following a road rage incident, and must run away from Moscow.

They fight with rival gangsters and corrupt members of the police, the car also runs out of gas and gets a flat tire.

Dimon, who was left as the getaway driver of the BMW (presumably due to his injury) contemplates joining his friends in the gunfight.

An alternative explanation is that the car was not legally imported into Russia and was being driven with Latvian plates to avoid customs duties.