A herding family moves across the Mongolian steppe and into the taiga forest zone, following reindeer and horses through a landscape that shifts from open grassland to dense timber. The film follows their daily routines, herding animals, setting up and breaking down camp, and adapting to seasonal changes that make their way of life increasingly precarious. Interviews with family members and footage of the physical work involved in nomadic herding give a ground-level view of a lifestyle under pressure from modernization and changing land use. The camera stays close to the people rather than the scenery, tracking small decisions, an argument over route, a child learning to handle livestock, that add up to a portrait of how this culture actually functions day to day. It ends without resolution, since the pressures on the family's way of life are ongoing, not something a single season can settle.