Li Wenxiu has been trying to make it as a writer in the city, failing, and is pulled back to her mother's snack bar in Altay — the Xinjiang grasslands of far northwestern China, where her Kazakh neighbors live according to rhythms of land, horses, and season that feel like another century. There she meets Bateer, a young Kazakh man who moves through the world with the uncomplicated directness of someone who has never needed a persona. Based on author Li Juan's autobiographical essays, To the Wonder is an eight-episode gem that treats ethnic minority culture with unusual specificity and warmth — not the ethnographic distance of an outsider documentary but the intimate knowledge of someone who actually lived there. The scenery is extraordinary. The emotional restraint is rarer.
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