Wild Totem, one of China's best-selling novels of recent years, tells a story about the rugged life among wolves on the Mongolian plains. The book, which took writer Jiang Rong 30 years to complete, is an in-depth story describing how and why the Mongolian people in north China worship the wolf. It tells many takes of encounters between Mongolian herdsmen and wolves on the grasslands.
1967年，北京知青陈阵（冯绍峰饰）和杨克（窦骁饰）相应上山下乡号召来到了内蒙古额仑大草原插队，结识了蒙古族牧民毕利格（巴森饰），葛斯迈（昂哈尼玛饰）一家，也见识了草原上最令人敬畏的动物：狼。在与狼群的接触过程中，陈阵对这一物种有了强烈的兴趣，甚至有了想自己养一只小狼的念头。就在此时，一群外来人贪婪地掠夺了狼群储存过冬的黄羊，打破了狼群和牧民之间的生态平衡。而以场部主任包顺贵（尹铸胜饰）为首的生产队更是发起了一场灭狼运动，让狼群和人类之间的关系陷入到了剑拔弩张的地步……电影改编自姜戎同名小说，一坐着自己主要在文革时期在蒙古草原的亲身经历、以近乎自传体的叙事角度，描述了狼的活生生的世界。
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