A widowed Tibetan woman from a conservative mountain village defies her father-in-law and insists on enrolling her young son in school. She brings him to Beijing, where she tries to give him to a foreigner so he can get an education. She struggles to support him by illegally selling handicrafts on the street, while evading occasionally violent police.
Filmed, edited and produced by Jocelyn Ford. Folk music sung by Zanta (Yeshe Drolma) and her son Konchoksum.