In the mid-1980s, Akhyuk Lama, a Buddhist monk, went to meditate on a sacred plateau in eastern Tibet. Around him gathered many pilgrims who founded Yaqen gar, a "Buddhist citadel" which now houses about 20 thousand monks, two-thirds of them women. A sacred place that the Chinese government wants to demolish. The director was the only Western woman who managed to live with them, staying for a month despite police checks, to tell the story of a place that may soon disappear.