The young boy Angdu is recognised as a Rinpoche, the reincarnation of a Tibetan monk living centuries earlier. The village doctor thus decides to take him under his wing and accompany him along the path leading to wisdom. The first problem will be to succeed in moving from his village in Ladakh, in northern India, to a Tibetan monastery, where he can meet new spiritual guides. However, the young Angdu will also have to face other trials, starting with those jeopardising his faith in his spiritual destiny. Filmed over a period of eight years, the film tells the story of a long friendship that will stop at nothing, even in the face of the Chinese army patrolling the frontier of Tibet, towards which the two are heading in order to arrive at the source of their search.