In the Black Mountains of Pakistan the discovery of an unconscious unknown man is the first
stone in an avalanche of chaos. The head of the village is beset with problems - including the
injured stranger - and failing to find his way out. His daughter receives a love letter and
incurs her father's wrath. A lame boy foretells disaster but nobody is listening. Trapped in
terrible danger a wolf-dog is battling ice and death to save a soldier's life. Beaten by her
addict husband for bearing him only daughters a woman is pregnant again - but can this child
save her? In a land woven with myth chained with tradition and afflicted by war and the march
of progress the spirits of the mountains keep a baleful eye on the struggles of the villagers
who scrape a living from the bodies of their wildlife. As the elements turn on the village can
humanity find a way to co-exist with nature that doesn't destroy either of them?
