Tunga is a 20-year-old girl who has come to Ulaan Bator from "the provinces" to study journalism. Life is hard in the city on a shoestring budget. And it's tough for country girls to compete with city girls. But Tunga hangs in there. She has to go home because her father, a breeder, has had a serious horse-riding accident. We discover the winter life of a Mongolian family in these regions: nothing very exciting: a white immensity surrounds the small yurt where her father, mother, three sisters and a little brother, who is not allowed to go to school, live. This life is far too quiet for his taste, even if from time to time the pleasure of living with horses reminds him of Mongolia's glorious past. Back at "U.B", she has the opportunity to do a "paper" on the history of the Mongols since Ghenghis Khan. This was her first taste of television. This could be her chance...
Director: Alain BOURRILLON
22 май 2024
