A Time for Drunken Horses

When the youngest boy of a destitute Kurdish family suffers from a terminal illness, his young siblings struggle to pay for a life-saving operation, resorting to manual labor and smuggling to raise the funds. With both parents dead, the children's devotion to one another is unparalleled, but mere day-to-day survival is tenuous in the unforgiving, freezing mountainous terrain along the Iran-Iraq border.