Chen Zhen, a young Beijing student, is sent to Inner Mongolia in 1969 to live among the nomadic ranchers. Humans and animals, residents and invaders alike, struggle to identify their real position in the world as they are caught between the rise of civilization from the south and the nomads' traditional adversaries-the ravaging wolves-from the north.
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Chen Zhen, a young Beijing student, is sent to Inner Mongolia in 1969 to live among the nomadic ranchers. Humans and animals, residents and invaders alike, struggle to identify their real position in the world as they are caught between the rise of civilization from the south and the nomads' traditional adversaries-the ravaging wolves-from the north.
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