Mongolia's Red Taiga, part of the vast boreal forest belt covering nearly a fifth of the planet's land surface, holds some of the densest concentrations of rivers and springs anywhere and has sustained nomadic herders for millennia. Illegal hunting and mining have hollowed out its wildlife over the past three decades, prompting the Mongolian Ministry of Environment to establish Red Taiga National Park in 2012. The film follows Jal Tumursukh, a former local hunter turned chief ranger, as he tries to enforce environmental law against the very practices, poaching, illegal gold mining, and unregulated nomadism, that his neighbors depend on for survival. Cameras track his patrols through the forest and his efforts to recruit forest guards from communities who see the new restrictions as a threat to their way of life. The tension between conservation and tradition runs through every scene, with Tumursukh caught between enforcing a law he believes in and communities he once belonged to. It is a portrait of a park trying to hold a fragile ecosystem together while its own rangers question who the rules are really for.