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Director:  Sonthar Gyal
Writer:  Sonthar Gyal
Stars:  Yangchan Lhamo, Regzin Drolma, Guru Tsedan
Language:  Tibetan

Spring is about to arrive. Little girl Yangchan Lhamo’s father Guru has a motorbike accident. Rumours spread among the herdsmen and villagers that it must have been

the bad karma coming back to him for his neglect of his own father. When Guru’s father falls ill and everyone in the village is going to visit him, Guru finally brings Yangchan to meet her grandfather for the first time in her life.

After moving  from the  winter pastures to the summer pastures, the young Yangchan is left with the responsibility of taking care of a  little sheep and she grows attached to it very much. In the meantime Guru finds a ‘gzi’ (a kind of holy stone that is supposed to have come from heaven) with ‘three eyes’ by chance.  Tibetans believe it signifies the imminent birth of a boy but Yangchan is not pleased when her mother tells her that she will soon have a baby brother.

Summer has arrived.  Yangchan notices her mother Regzin Drolma’s belly has become bigger…

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