Stoic truck driver Jinpa picks up a silver dagger wearing hitchhiker in the desolate Kekexili plateau. The stranger suddenly reveals he’s going to kill the man who murdered his father. After they part ways, Jinpa starts to reflect and goes looking for him, ostensibly to prevent further bloodshed. Pema Tseden’s sixth feature, produced by Wong Kar-wai, boasts mesmerizing cinematography, striking mise en scene and a deceptively minimalist story for an existential road movie of spiritual transcendence. Dream and reality meld in this stark tale, its Tibetan locales conjuring the feel of a philosophical arthouse western.