 An arrogant executive for an American auto company, JAKE, smuggles a million dollars in bribe money to Romania weeks after the revolution to grease the wheels of the post-Communist bureaucracy. Jake unwittingly gets swept up in his Romanian chauffeur s dream: the first American style hamburger joint in Eastern Europe. He falls in love with his chauffeur s sister, a firebrand of the opposition party and minor hero of the revolution, who s attracted to him, but offended by everything he stands for. The secret police, suspicious of his fraternizing with dissidents, mistakenly conclude that the burger joint is a front for an American-funded anti-government party, and brand him an enemy of the people. Back home, the SEC investigates the undeclared million, and his American cohorts let him take the fall. In a comedy of errors, he goes on the run, loses the million, and ends up disguised as a peasant, fleeing for his life across the wilds of Transylvania. From Armani suits to peasant rags, from Malibu to the post-Communist Twilight Zone - he journeys light years from home to rediscover the American Dream.