The Gentle Indifference of the World

After her father’s untimely death, Saltanat is forced to trade her idyllic countryside life for the cruel and cynical city. She has to find money to pay off the large family debt that her father left behind, in order to save her mother from jail. But life in the city proves to be quite different from what she’d been promised. Saltanat is only able to cope because she has her loyal childhood friend and admirer Kuandyk by her side. Although life keeps dealing them bad hands, Saltanat and Kuandyk never give up. A moving story about pure love as the only true value in a world obsessed with power and money. A new film by the Kazakh director who's film “The Owners” was screened at PÖFF 2014.