When Dmitri, a retired American naval officer living in the Florida Keys, decides he wants to become a father again in his sixties, he begins a search for a young mail order bride. When his first choice, Irina, a beauty from Russia, arrives in Miami, she seems to fulfill the promises made in the bride magazine. Within a few days though, his would-be bride flees to reunite with her secret lover, a Georgian mobster. Then Dmitri finds himself in a world of trouble - not only is he a jilted lover, but within fourteen days' time he has to produce Irina to be sent back to Russia. And there is no way to extract her from the mob.... In his epic and humorous efforts to retrieve his Russian bride, Dmitri gets entangled with the mob, the FBI, The Coast Guard and US Customs, culminating in an epic battle at sea and an unrelenting search to find the right woman to fulfill his desire to become a father again.