This is a story about a young couple whose newly planned life was destroyed by the impact of the Great Purges of 1934–1938 in Mongolia. The main goal of this movie was to provide a testimony for the many Buryats and Mongolians who were persecuted during the Great Purges initiated by Joseph Stalin. In 1937 and 1938, many people, and even entire families, were killed after being wrongfully accused of conspiracies. The movie was shot on location near the Buryat village of Dadal in the Khentii province of Mongolia. The acting and other participation of many local villagers was a great addition to the authenticity of the film
We humans have been living among the many unexplained mysteries of this universe for generations. This film aims to show the public that some people can experience this feeling, interact with it, and even talk to it, and that it can be experienced and understood by those who do not feel it. This film depicts the transformation of Alagaa, an ordinary young herder with no profession or education, based on real-life sources.
A young boy named Tulga is lost in a yak herd during the migration and raised in a wolf's den. A hunter finds the boy while searching for food from a wolf's den in the spring. As the boy grows up, he learns how to inherit the customs of his Mongolian people and how to improve his way of life.
