Colors of White Rock

In Mongolia's Gobi Desert, Maikhuu is one of the country's only female truck drivers, hauling coal across treacherous roads to provide for her family.

With few other choices available to her, she navigates the punishing landscape of Mongolia's mining boom, where an endless line of trucks race each other to the Chinese border. It is gruelling, dangerous work in a country increasingly shaped by the human and environmental costs of what has come to be known as 'Minegolia'. Dominated by men in a system that leaves little room for anyone, let alone a woman determined to carve out her own place in it, Maikhuu's strength of spirit is remarkable. The roar of engines and the silence of the desert are rendered with a closeness that puts us right beside her, feeling both the weight of her world and the vast emptiness that surrounds it. Maikhuu keeps driving.