Lullaby

The cameraman tells his yet-to-be-born child, Pamir, “Listen, I am going to tell you the story about my village.” The people of the village are constantly working, the camera lingering on the hands. The landscape. The traditions and rituals of the people. A woman with a tambourine. The spinning shamanic dance of an elder. A mother swinging a cradle gently. The newborn admonished not to forget the Motherland.