“I was interested in the ambiguity of the relationship in the short story between the two women, I was never sure if the older woman and younger woman were mother and child, sisters, cousins or even lovers. It was not clear. They survived together, they needed one another to stay alive, if one left the other would probably die. In the short story they didn’t even have names, there was no need, they hardly spoke to one another. Suddenly everything changed when the man came into their lives. The women began to compete for his attention and grew apart.” ? Asif Kapadia In the second of a cycle based on the four points of the compass (the first being The Warrior, representing the East), the film is based on Sara Maitland’s short story. A soldier, Loki, comes between two surviving women of a tribe of herders, resulting in tragedy.