在这部空房剧情片中,住在吉尔吉斯坦偏僻的小村庄里的阿瑟明天要和舒尔坦结婚了，母亲去世，照顾酒鬼父亲和弟妹的她现在要听从父亲的决定，成为舒尔坦的女人。父亲安慰女儿说这个婚姻可以摆脱过去艰难的人生，但是阿瑟已有深爱的男人，并已怀上了他的孩子。在贫穷的爱人和拥有权力和金钱，但是自己并不爱的舒尔坦之间她会选择谁呢？
Kyrgyzstan. Ascel is engaged to Sultan, the local Mr Big with the grandest house. This looks like a palace to Ascel, who lives in a hovel with her drunkard father. She doesn't love Sultan, but she wants a better life. She is having an affair with Marat and expecting his child. She marries Sultan but immediately leaves for Moscow for an abortion, and starts living with gastarbeiters. She sells her unborn child to Virginie, a French woman. She becomes housemaid to (and then lover of) a rich New Russian, Arkady. Marat appears, starts a fight with Arkady and gets arrested. Ascel decides to go to France and stay with Virginie. But she discovers that the latter has a mental disease. Then the baby arrives...
