该片讲述了神油店老板程勇从一个交不起房租的男性保健品商贩，一跃成为印度仿制药“格列宁”独家代理商的故事
Cheng Yong (Xú Zhēng), an ordinary middle-aged man, runs a health care shop, but he is frustrated and divorced. The arrival of the uninvited guest Lu Benefiting (Eric Wang) opened up a new business of purchasing medicines in India. Although there were many difficulties, he found business opportunities on this road of purchasing medicines, and started out of control as the exclusive agent of Indian generic medicines for treating CML.
While making money, he also met several patients and their families. Si Hui (Tan Zhuo), who was forced to be a dancer to save her daughter, Pastor Liu (Yang Xinming), who speaks fluent English as a priest, and "Huang Mao" (Zhang Yu), who has a violent temper. Several people started a business together, and their profits doubled and they were also in danger.
Cheng Yong's former brother-in-law Cao police officer (Zhou Yiwei) was ordered to investigate the origin of generic drugs, and counterfeit drug dealer Zhang Changlin (Yanhui Wang) and Swiss real medicine representative (Li Naiwen) were also eyeing it, and the business gradually turned into a tug-of-war about redemption. This film is adapted from the real story of Lu Yong, a patient with chronic myelogenous leukemia, purchasing anticancer drugs on his behalf.
《我不是药神》是一部中国电影，英文名为"Dying to Survive"。电影讲述了一个关于抗癌药物的故事。以下是电影的主要情节：
程勇（由徐峥饰演）是一个失业的中年男子，他在一次偶然的机会中发现了一种名为“格列宁”的昂贵抗癌药物，这种药物对于治疗慢性粒细胞性白血病非常有效。然而，这种药物的专利权在中国并未得到授权，因此在国内无法购买到。
程勇为了拯救患有白血病的父亲，决定冒险从印度走私这种廉价的抗癌药物到中国。他与印度的药厂取得了联系，开始将药物走私到中国。随着时间的推移，程勇的生意越来越大，他开始招募其他成员加入，形成了一个专门从事走私的团队。
然而，随着警方对走私活动的打击，程勇和他的团队面临着越来越大的风险。最终，程勇被警方逮捕，并被判处有期徒刑。在狱中，他得知他的父亲已经去世，这让他深感痛苦和自责。
电影通过这个故事，探讨了中国医疗体制中存在的一些问题，包括昂贵的医疗费用和药物短缺等。它也引发了关于道德、法律和人性的深入思考。