A Moscow charity concert turns bloody when armed forces extortionists take the President, Venus, and the headlining American pop star hostage, together along with his loved ones. Even the drummer of a heavy metallic warmup band, an ex-bad buttocks biker played with Lundgren, and also a young Russian F.S.B. representative team up to react. Both heroes are badly outnumbered, when ghosts out of the Soviet Union seem to spoil the present in this busy action item and things are not as easy as they appear.