The Horse Boy
The Horse Boy is the inspirational documentary of Kristin Neff an American university professor with a Ph.D. in Human Development and Rupert Isaacson her British émigré travel writer husband and their unique and heroic effort to address the often daunting autism of Rowan their heart grabbing four year old. Rupert who has a history with horses and a history with shamanism (most of it he wrote himself) was surprised to find an equine simpatico with Rowan and a neighbours horse. Because of his African research with the Bushmen of the Kalahari Rupert postulated on combining the two as therapy for Rowan and the one place on earth that reveres both horses and witch doctors with equal measure is Mongolia. Kristin gamely goes along with the unorthodox scheme to blindly go to that wind swept steppe but can two highly educated people really take such a leap of faith? The answer is yes and with some very surprising results.