
December 27, 1965 · 60 years old

A curious friendship develops between Gombo, a young Mongolian shepherd living with his wife and family in a hut, deep in the wilderness of the steppes, and Sergei, a Russian worker whose truck breaks down not far from Gombo's hut.

A group of cosmopolitan women passengers aboard the Trans-Siberian/Mongolian Railway are taken prisoner by Ulan Iga, a warrior princess.

In the late 1950s, the party committee and government of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region send nearly 3,000 orphans to the Mongolian grasslands to be adopted by simple and kind nomads.