Rita's daughter is sick with leukemia. In order to obtain the money for a bone marrow transplant, she travels from Ukraine to Russia to become a surrogate mother. The homosexual couple who are the biological parents of the child die in an automobile accident. Rita is left six month pregnant, without any money, and with a dying daughter to care for. In order to save her daughter, Rita is prepared to do anything. She's drawn into the criminal world, from which she escapes with her daughter to Jordan in the Near East, where Bedouins treat cancer by means of nontraditional medicines.

Я（音译：Ya）在俄语中意思是我或者自己。影片讲述了上世纪九十年代初，一名俄罗斯青年为了逃避军役，装疯进了精神病诊所,。他在强制治疗几年后才得以获释。后来，他成为了一名纪录片导演参与车臣冲突。在那里，他差点丧命，生与死的瞬间他回顾了自己以往的生活并意识到兵役 整整一代人的需要经历的命运。