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In the modern
world, ancient nomadic tribes are near
annihilation and most of them have given up
their nomadic habits for being settled on a
piece of land. This film is a documentary about
customs and rituals of Shahsavan tribe that
lives in northwestern part of Iran in a nomadic
way and leads a living through raising sheep and
grazing animals. On the foots of 4,800-m Sabalan
Mountain live nomadic people who are shepherds
and speak Turkish. This current film, in fact,
is an inside look at the life of a shepherd who
has no choice but to take refuge in a cave after
he loses his beloved girl, his mother, as well
as the flock he was supposed to graze. Soon he
makes the acquaintance of an astronomer who has
come to study a 6,000-year-old Stonehenge in
that region and the subsequent friendship leads
to a great development in the hopeless and
desperate life of the shepherd; a development
which culminates in his ‘ascension’. The film
takes us along 180-km path of the tribe’s
immigration, which takes place every year, to
make us familiar with their customs, rituals,
marriage ceremony, as well as occupation of
tribal women |