The Hunter

In an isolated village in the Kazakhstan mountains Erken a boy of 12 lives with his mother a beautiful and alluring single woman One night when the mother is visited by a hunter Erken steals the latters horse and his gun to hold up a shop Sought by the police he is found by the hunter who gives him a choice to go to prison or to go and live with him in the mountains Thus begins a voyage of initiation in the course of which the hunter tries to pass on his taste for and understanding of life