Hired to write a travel article for a magazine, Ulan-Bator ventures to
Mongolia, where he finds a cast of odd and outlandish expatriates,
including an ex-Red Army officer turned Buddhist, a French zombie, and
an American correspondent for a newspaper that no longer exists. At the
center of this philosophical romance is the Genghis Khan Hotel, where a
group of drunken intellectuals endlessly debate a new cosmological
theory proposing that the world itself is a hologram.