This is an ironic story about how a follower of capitalism ventures into entrepreneurship in a Soviet village in the 1920s. The protagonist is Yasha Vosmerkin, who found himself in the United States at a young age but, upon learning of the revolution in Russia, decided to return to his homeland... So Yasha, who had transformed into Jack on American soil, returned to his village and became a Russian farmer. And slowly but surely, he began to realize his American dreams on Soviet territory...