The film centers on the daily lives of indigenous people in the Siberian village of Bakhtia, situated on the Yenisei River. Over the course of a year, the camera captures the routines of the villagers, whose traditional ways of life have remained largely unchanged for centuries.
Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
In the isolated Siberian village of Bakhtia, the passage of time has been all but forgotten as trappers maintain a traditional way of life, with barely a hint of modernization in over a century.