DIRECTOR'S STATEMENT / This is a long-gestating story of a Bökhwrestler from the grasslands. Over the course of the year-long process, from the planning stages to its final form, the story went through many drafts that included elements of science fiction, post-apocalyptic cyberpunk, and even ethnic mythology, not to mention settings and concepts that would help it spread across the Internet. These ideas were all abandoned in the end when I discovered I wanted to tell a simple story, one that encompasses sport, grassland culture, and family. Over and over, the words “national character” and “destiny” surfaced in my mind: through the many difficulties of the past few years, “tenacity” has been the defining element of national character. And my understanding of destiny is this: when someone can no longer put up any resistance, it will be inescapable fate that finally runs headlong into him.