阿诺德•施瓦辛格（瓦莱里）是一个著名笑星，然而身患重病的他已时日无多。嗜酒的瓦莱里在不喜欢医院的拘束和病房外记者的关注，他一个人溜出医院找酒喝。瓦莱里喝酒时被几个小混混发现，他们捉弄他，拍下照片，并把他带到奶奶家开派对，忍无可忍的瓦莱里和他们发生冲突，但又和他们重归于好。瓦莱里的儿子伊利亚一直对前妻卡佳旧情不忘，而卡佳已和富商安东走到了一起。安东因生意不顺要前往纽约，伊利亚希望卡佳能留下来，一番纠结后卡佳决定和安东前往纽约。

　　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.

　　俄罗斯2004年战争片，电影讲述的是军事历史学家不喜欢回顾的、在惩戒营中受惩戒的军人的故事。影片描述惩戒营中的军人们无名的战功和兄弟般的情谊，通过这些惩戒兵的悲壮命运，反映了在苏联伟大卫国战争最艰难时期的生活。