 The streets of Ulaan Baatar, the coldest capital in the world, are thronged by young men buying cheap and selling dear. Zhenya and Sasha are two of them. They are would-be wheeler-dealers who face particularly bleak times when the temperature drops to 45 degrees of frost. Zhenya tries to rustle up enough to keep the wolf from his tiny family s door, while he dreams of a better life in a society undergoing a complete transformation after the collapse of communism.