Jalainur

Jalainur a name from the beautiful Lake Hulunaka Dalai nuur in Mongolian is one of the last places in the world where steam trains are still running It is also where the story begins Master Chu is retiring from the opencut coal mine where he has been working for more than 30 years as a train technician Somehow he decides to retire one month earlier His apprentice ZhiZhong whom he shares a fathersonlike relationship with insists on seeing him off accompanying him along the way to his daughters place somewhere miles away on the border between China and Russia