During the bloody war in Chechnya, a British couple and two Russian soldiers are taken hostage by Chechen rebels. Two of the hostages are then released to bring the money for the British woman who is forced to wait for the ransom.

Aleksey Chadov
as Ivan

Ian Kelly
as John

Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė
as Margaret

Sergei Bodrov Jr.
as Captain Medvedev

Yuri Stepanov
as Aleksandr Matrosov

Evklid Kyurdzidis
as Ruslan

Vladimir Gostyukhin
as Ivan's Father

Irina Sokolova
as

Sergey Shemarkin
as

Viktoriya Smirnova
as Katya