Elvis and Marilyn

The film chronicles the melancholy journey of two celebrity lookalikes chasing their dream of la dolce vita in Italy Romanian Marilyn Monroe impersonator Ileana and Bulgarian Elvis double Nicolaj win a lookalike contest in Bucharest in which the prize is a summer engagement in a nightclub on Italys Adriatic coast The two strangers take off together communicating in the broken Italian they picked up from TV When a bureaucratic hitch with Ileanas passport cuts them off at the airport they cross the border illegally by car travelling through a part of Yugoslavia devastated by war They accept hospitality at a military outpost but the suicide of a colonel there casts suspicion on Ileana Beaten and afraid they continue their odyssey across the harsh sunless nomansland gradually scarring them both and clouding their hopes They finally reach Italy but all is not as promised