Skylark is a documentary set in a Mongolian coalmining village. The children who seek out a meager existence digging coal are called Skylarks. One such ten-year-old girl is named Suvdaa. She has a sick mother, an absent father, an aged grandfather, an elder sister and a small brother: their livelihoods rest entirely on the small girl’s shoulders. To say nothing of going to school, playing or being spoiled like a child are luxuries not permitted to Suvdaa. All her bed stricken mother wishes is that her daughter learns to read and is one day able to lead her own life. What does the future hold for her in such a temperately harsh and poverty stricken land?
 The technique of the television documentary as linear contents is made the best use of, and follows the girl’s life in detail, while showing the current state of dire poverty in the background with reality.