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Film description

Dondup dreams about escaping from his cozy village and visiting the exciting land flickering with colorful lights at photographs and film frames – America. But before he gets on a plane, he has to travel through hundreds of kilometers of Himalayan roads. Not discouraged by missing the only bus, he decides to walk on – the journey he embarks on has many surprises in store.

Khyentse Norbu uses the classic convention of a road movie to talk about the changing country, whose paths are still traveled by experienced shepherds, all sorts of vagabonds looking for their place on earth, and storytellers, sharing the tales from distant places and times. The episodic structure of the film allows it to touch upon many aspects of the Bhutanese reality, and its slow pace and the beauty of the land the protagonists wander through, bring back the legends and stories intertwining seriousness with humor, and original metaphors with a serious life lesson.

Jagoda Murczyńska