A nomadic family herding camels in Mongolia's Gobi desert deals with a difficult birth: a rare white colt delivered after two days of labor, then rejected by its exhausted mother. The herders try every traditional remedy they know, tying the colt to the mother, singing to her, before deciding they need a hoos fasu, a musician who performs a ritual coaxing ceremony meant to draw out a mother's affection. The family sends two boys on a motorbike across the desert to the nearest town to find a violinist, and the journey doubles as a look at how satellite dishes and television are arriving in gers even as centuries-old customs continue. The film follows four generations of one household through daily chores, herding, and the specific texture of desert life, with almost no imposed narration, just observed conversation and the sounds of the camp. The ceremony itself, performed at the film's end, is the payoff: whether music can actually change a camel's mind.