Product Overview
Seamlessly blending documentary and fiction, The Wolves Always Come At Night is a timely reminder of the sometimes-tenuous foundations of the places we call home. Born to generations of Mongolian herders, young couple Davaa and Zaya are raising their four children as they were brought up: with an intimate connection to the land and the animals they share their lives with.
After a severe sandstorm leaves a devastating impact in its wake, Davaa and Zaya must make a once-unthinkable decision that will irrevocably change their family’s lives. With herding now untenable, they relocate to the city, as hundreds of thousands have done before them. Once in Ulaanbaatar, the family sets up in the ger district, a sprawling yurt settlement on the city’s outskirts where most of the former herders now live, and where overpopulation and pollution thrive.
Curriculum Links:
The Wolves Always Come At Night is relevant to secondary school students in Years 10-12 in the learning areas of:
- English
- Media Arts
- Geography (while the film touches on issues of climate change and desertification, this is not the central focus and would be suitable as a supplementary text)
There is also relevance to the General Capability of Intercultural Understanding, as well as the Cross-curriculum Priority of Sustainability and Asia and Australia’s Engagement with Asia.
Key themes and topics explored include:
- Human experience
- Connection to culture and family
- Effects of climate change
