Winner of the Audience Award for Most Popular Film in the Vanguard section of the Vancouver International Film Festival last year, Amarsaikhan Baljinnyam’s simple yet extremely moving drama has city-slicker chef Tulgaa (played by the director) leave his job in Ulaanbaatar and return to his roots on the Mongolian Steppe to care for his dying father. Once back home, he encounters Tuntuulei (Tenuun-Erdene Garamkhand), a brash and aggressive ten-year-old boy being raised by his grandparents. When Tulgaa’s father dies, Tulgaa decides to stay and complete the harvest that his father had started—and a tentative bond begins to form between the fatherless boy and the fatherless man… Unfolding against the splendour of the Mongolian Steppe and gorgeously photographed in widescreen by Joshua Fisher, this is a tale for the ages that will reverberate in the minds of festivalgoers long after the screen goes dark.