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During a journey across the Mongolian steppes, explorer-photographer Yoshiharu Sekino meets Pujee, a 6-year-old nomad girl. The two instantly make friends, forming a long-lasting bond despite initial diffidence and profound differences. In a delicate, often touching manner, Kazuya Yamanda documents Pujee growing up in an uncontaminated world. Strong and determined for her young age, Pujee is already an essential part of her family, whose livelihood and survival, like those of other nomad groups, are seriously threatened by the change to a market economy.
«Every day, in every corner, in every scene streaming past the window to which no passenger gives a thought, people are meeting, affecting and changing each other, and being propelled in new directions. This is the significance of "meeting" and "changing", and I hope the film succeeds in expressing that».
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