In a month with two full moons, Austrian petty criminal Johnny Pichler is hired to carry a bag of cash to the Slovakian border and deliver it to a gangster.
Shirley, who is no bimbo, squirts the gangster with an incapacitating spray, kicks him out of the car and races away with Johnny and the cash.
Lonely Johnny teams up with Ignaz Springer, an East German con man who is having trouble adapting to post-Communist Europe, but claims to have business interests in Ukraine: shoe import-export.
Jana tells him that Shirley's real name is Dana and that she had left Lviv some months ago after a bout of craziness.
Dusl sees the love that develops between Johnny and Jana as a metaphor for the relationship between the east and the west.