Leningrad Cowboys Meet Moses - Plot

Plot

Picking up where Leningrad Cowboys Go America left off, the band has settled in Mexico after charting a top ten hit there. However, many band members become alcoholics spending most of their day drinking tequila. Before long, more than half of the band members have died from excessive drinking. The surviving members have, in the mean time, become naturalized Mexicans, complete with mustaches, Mexican wardrobe, and the pompadours still intact..

Down on their luck and out of practice, the band and their road manager Igor (Kari Vaananen) receive an anonymous telegram, requesting their presence for a gig at the Surf Hotel at Coney Island. So they sneak past the Mexican-American boarder and make their way back to the City. When they arrive, they find out that the sender of the telegram was their ex-manager Vladimir (Matti Pellonpää) who, after going through an experience of being born again, now calls himself Moses. Moses gathers the group at his room, and plans a return trip to the Promised Land (Siberia) so that they can rebuild the band. After they leave for Europe, Moses takes the Statue of Liberty's nose as a souvenir.

While the others head to Europe by boat, Moses stows away on the wing of a plane. Inside, a CIA agent (André Wilms) learns of the missing nose through an article in the New York Tribune. Moses, meanwhile, falls off the plane and meets up with the band at a beach. Several of their people from Siberia arrive in a rented bus to pick them up.

As Moses inherited Vladimir's business talent, he continues to secure gigs for the band for money. Their first stop is a Bingo parlor in France. Eventually, the CIA agent catches up with them at a hotel in Amiens, and, posing as a record producer, provides them with money to play for a wedding at the hotel. The agent goes to the bus to find the nose there, but is knocked unconscious by Igor. The next day, they learn of his real identity from the CIA logo on his cigarette holder, and take him for the rest of the trip.

• In Frankfurt, Moses is recognized by a gas station attendent, and phones the police. Igor is able to get some street toughs to bust them out, and they play a show before they set off again.
• In Leipzig, Moses engages in a Bible recitation duel with a fellow band member, who tells the others what he learned and why they must return.
• In the Czech Republic, the band wash their clothes in the spring water. The CIA Agent goes through the same experience as Vladimir/Moses, and renames himself Elijah. While in the area, the band plays for a local family. Later, Elijah is asked by Moses to sing the next song.
• In Poland, one band member gets sick, so after playing for money, they leave him by a hospital doorstep.

Before they cross the boarder to Russia, Moses states that, according to the Holy Bible, he never sees the promised land, so he retires and returns to being Vladimir. After ridding the bus of empty bottles, they arrive home the next morning. Everyone is happy to see their return, and have a party that evening. The film ends with Elijah being left alone with the nose.