The director of the acclaimed CARDIOGRAM and KILLER transplants Tolstoy's Anna Karenina to contemporary, money-mad Kazakhstan. A woman leaves the safety of her urban marriage for a younger man in her hometown, only to be abandoned—just another possession to be discarded.

Aidai has deep powers: she can find lost souls and heal the ailing. But when a mob-driven venture forces her off her land, she is pulled into a brutal battle. Part gangster thriller, part spiritual journey, this film reveals the effects of encroaching capitalism on traditional ways of life.

This story of a herdsman’s family who raises goats on Kazakhstan’s arid steppe was a hit with Cannes audiences and the prizewinner at “Un Certain Regard.” Richly humorous and unusually delicate, it suggests a society struggling with the transition from agrarian traditions to modern realities.