Cassandra's circus donkey, Ia, is taken away from her by a new law that prohibits the use of animals for entertainment. This marks the beginning of a long and difficult journey: first to a stable, then to a donkey farm, a veterinary hospital, and even to another country. Along his life's path, Ia encounters good and bad people, experiences joy and pain, and goes through a wheel of fortune that accidentally turns luck into catastrophe and despair into unexpected happiness.
The director did not hide the fact that he borrowed the idea from Robert Bresson's classic drama "Au Hasard Balthazar". However, let us not forget that Bresson himself drew inspiration from Apuleius' novel "The Golden Ass".