Based on a true story, Yossi and Jagger portrays the love affair of two Israeli officers in a remote army base on the Israeli-Lebanese border. They are commanders, they are in love, and they try to find a place of their own in an oppressing and rigid system, which sends them to defend a cause they do not necessarily believe in.

The affair is not without its tensions. Yossi, the more macho and closeted, is not entirely comfortable with his sexuality and disapproves of his partner's fondness for ''diva music'' and other nonmanly tastes. The more handsome, free-spirited and playful Jagger pressures Yossi to consider leaving the army and living with him. When two attractive female soldiers arrive at the base with their own designs on the two men, the suppressed sexual tensions among the soldiers intensifies.