A young teacher in modern Bhutan, Ugyen, shirks his duties while planning to go to Australia to become a singer. As a reprimand, his superiors send him to the most remote school in the world, in a village called Lunana, to complete his service. There he finds no electricity, no textbooks, not even a blackboard. He wants to quit, but he begins to learn of the hardship in the lives of the children he teaches, and begins to be transformed through the spiritual strength of the villagers. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best International Feature Film.