When their recently widowed father announces he plans to remarry, sisters Vera and Nadezhda realize they must put aside a lifetime of feuding in order to save him His new love is a voluptuous gold-digger from the Ukraine half his age, and with a proclivity for green satin underwear and boil-in-the-bag cuisine, who stops at nothing in her single-minded pursuit of the luxurious Western lifestyle she dreams of But the old man, too, is pursuing his eccentric dreams - and writing a history of tractors in Ukrainian