[1] Karma, a young Tibetan woman from New York City comes to Dharamshala, the exile headquarters of the Dalai Lama in India, in search of her roots.

He reveals to her that his dying mother had made him promise to deliver an old charm box to an exile Tibetan named Loga, and appeals to her for help in locating the man.

As they set out to unravel the mysterious circumstances of his disappearance, Karma finds herself unwittingly attracted to Dhondup even as she is sucked into the vortex of his search, which takes them through the world of the exile Tibetan community in India and becomes a journey of self-discovery.

[citation needed] Andy Spence, the music composer, is a founder-member of the British pop group, New Young Pony Club.

[citation needed] The New York Sun said that the film "remains a keenly felt and well-told story of nations and the individual people who form them, wherever they may actually live.