A Muslim ambassador exiled from his homeland, Ahmad ibn Fadlan finds himself in the company of Vikings. While the behavior of the Norsemen initially offends ibn Fadlan, the more cultured outsider grows to respect the tough, if uncouth, warriors. During their travels together, ibn Fadlan and the Vikings get word of an evil presence closing in, and they must fight the frightening and formidable force, which was previously thought to exist only in legend.
Three guys escape from Soviet Estonia to Sweden via Finland in the 1980s. Swedes welcome them as real heroes who broke through the Iron Curtain. But as the media circus blows over, dissidents discover that they've become nothing more than tedious immigrants. To put food on the table they have to do something as lame as... work! So they come up with new crazy plans that should guarantee success in the Western world. That's when things go totally insane!