"The Brokpas are pastoral nomads as their existence depends upon yaks only. The system of polyandry came to the community to save the cattle from being divided among brothers," he said.
It is a custom in that region for a woman to have more than one husband. Muzid depicts a unique situation where the husband offers to accept his wife's lover as co-husband. But the presence of the new man makes the first husband very lonely.
Sonam, the wife, suffers silently, too. Being a Buddhist, she opts for her own death in a heartbreaking ending.
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