i love the epic documentary saltmen of tibet and so i be a fan of dusty low plot movie about someplace i will never go . but tulpan be terrible . i can not believe i sit through the whole thing . the assault on the sens and the constant noise of that bratty kid singing and that other kid shout and the wind and the camel stampede or sheep stampede . . . what a beating you take just sit there . the hideous scene of the child vie for the privilege of squeeze blackhead on their father back . honestly . too bad we do not get to watch somebody squat behind a clump of dry grass . the depressing anti heroism of asa and a fool and a liar . think he love or want a particular woman because it turn out she his last hope of get a herd of sheep . now that be a courtship . the falseness of the animal scene and story line . if those ewe be malnourish and you sure can not tell from their energetic behavior . so do not ask me to believe that why theyre lose their lamb . if theyre so malnourished and why be the lamb carry to full term and come out more or less the right size . and how come and since much of the action revolve around move the animal to pasture and we never once not once see a sheep or a cow or a camel eat anything . and what up with that healthy ewe deliver a healthy baby need assistance from the idiot . baloney . one thing that come through so very clearly be the horror of be a woman on that steppe . stick with cooking and cleaning and child . tulpan want to go to college and her mother violently chase away the suitor and presumably to spare her the life she and the mom and have endure . asa sister and niece be in some kind of cahoot to torment ondas . i have to believe the filmmaker understand what he be show and so maybe this whole horrible experience be a kind of feminist critique of a die way of life that can not breathe it last soon enough . so disappointing . the trailer be so wonderful . negative .