Every spring, in the hovsgol lake region located in northern Mongolia, Minjbayar and his family, the last of the darkhad nomads, begin a perilous journey on a frozen river. At an altitude of 2000 meters, in the icy mountains, they defy the cold and the blizzard on horseback to reach more fertile pastures essential to the survival of their herds of yaks and goats with cashmere wool.