Tulpan

Set in Kazakhstan's bleak Hunger Steppe where Asa, a young sailor recently discharged from the Russian Navy, is living in a yurt with his sister Samai and her family. He is determined to become a shepherd and to marry a local woman but the only single one is Tulpan, who turns him down because his ears are too big. Can Asa change her mind and can he and Samai halt the increase in stillborn lambs in their flock?