Picking up where Leningrad Cowboys Go America left off, the band has settled in Mexico after charting a top ten hit there.

Down on their luck and out of practice, the band receive an anonymous telegram, inviting them to perform at a hotel at Coney Island in New York.

Moses gathers the group at his room, and plans a return trip to the Promised Land (Siberia), for purposes that are explained later.

Four band members prepare a makeshift boat for the first leg of the journey; the fifth—the cousin they met in Texas—chooses to stay.

In Leipzig, Moses and a fellow band member exchange phrases from the Bible and Communist Manifesto respectively.

Meanwhile, Johnson is abandoned after trying to take the unattended bus to a US Army base, left with only a Holy Bible.

Moses, in an effort to regain the band's trust, goes to make money at a hotel billiard hall, earning enough to pay the hospital in full the following morning.

As Vladimir once again, he turns in empty bottles to the customs office as a distraction while the others sneak the bus across the border.