The Awakening
(Serelt)

A famous professor of medicine, Purevjav recalls his childhood. At the time, he was studying traditional medicine with an old lama whom he was working for as a servant. One day, a young Russian female doctor comes to settle in the area. She has to wait for months before she sees her first patient. Gradually she manages to get the population to trust her. When Purevjav’s elder daughter falls ill, her deeply pious family prefers to have her treated by a lama rather than consult a Russian doctor…