Made outside the geographical and metaphorical confines of Chungmuro (the heart of film production in Korea) this film gives audiences the change to encounter the legends and the beauty of the Tadzhikistan people in Central Asia. An elementary school teacher in his 40s, Anor lives in Ashit, a small rural village in Tadzhikistan. Building a toilet beneath Anor′s fence, a wealthy neighbor adds insult to injury with a daily routine of peeping at Anor′s wife. The outraged teacher quits work to build a toilet right in front of the home of the village prosecutor, who refuses to do anything about the peeping. The villagers jeer at him but Anor continues digging the hole. But pressure mounts and the weary Anor finally gives up. However, when he returns to the site, he discovers water in the hole, making it the first well to be found in the village. Mixing fable and realism, the film′s beautiful black and white images are reminiscent of Kiarostami and China′s fourth generation director Wu Pienming. The performances of the amateur actors and the ingenuity of the local customs blend to tell the legend of this village. This film was made as a student film when the director was studying in Russia. (Lee Sang-Yong)