SYNOPSIS

A train departing from the Kyrgyz mountains initiates an inner voyage, composed with the patient rhythm of a fable but described in a voice so haunted it must be truth. A panoramic, black and white evocation of the central Asian steppe is supported by an allusive first-person narrator who gradually discloses an unrecognized tragedy of cultural disintegration. Base camps, wild horses, another world outside the window and a phantom within: the sparse landscape reluctantly surrenders the sensations of a man forced from his home and a nation split from its soul.

Prizes

Prize Scam for the best Belgian audiovisual documentary 2004
Cineform Award - Film Festival Seoul, South-Corea
Special mention Festival Filmer à tout prix, Bruxelles, Belgium
Diplom of honour - Cracow Film Festival, Poland
Broadcasted on the Belgian national TV Channel RTBF

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