杰克(伊安·邦纳 Ian Bannen 饰)和麦克(大卫·凯利 David Kelly 饰)做了一辈子的朋友了,彼此之间友谊十分的坚实。两人最大的梦想,就是能够赢得乐透大奖,从此过上不劳而获的生活,可惜这个梦想离他们似乎有点远,也并不太可能通过努力来实现。
一天,当乐透公司宣布了中奖号码后,杰克和麦克震惊的发现,获奖者就住在他们所在的小镇之上,然而,并没有人站出来领奖。经过了细心的排查,杰克和麦克将获奖者的目标锁定在了一个名叫奈德(Jimmy Keogh 饰)的老头身上,当他们赶到奈德家时,却发现他因为兴奋过渡已经死了。一个疯狂的念头出现在了两人的脑海里,他们决定冒充奈德的身份,领取这笔奖金。
This is an interesting yet bizarre little tale of a fictional (as far as I know, anyway) experiment performed during the Stalin-controlled years in the USSR. The main character is changed from a woman into a man. This is part of a larger plan to change more women into men and have a stronger work-force/army, etc. It's a very in-depth character study of the main character, who tries to fit into a world that she (now 'he') doesn't really understand, especially since she's now a man ... Stalin dislikes the results of the experiments and has the scientist killed. The main character then goes off to live a life as a simple, unknown everyday Soviet, but is inexplicably drawn into larger and larger schemes (somewhat reminiscent of "Forrest Gump" in that way). (s)He has run-ins with different important characters, including his ex-boyfriend from his days of being a woman, as well as going on a demented quest for the nurse with whom he possibly fell in love after the operation... However, he is trapped in his life as an important Soviet married man, and in the end makes a huge sacrifice for his country (unwillingly), and the movie goes from there to an ending that is possibly happy, yet still somehow incredibly depressing.