The story is about a young girl Kaya (Udita Goswami) living in the beautifully serene valley of Spiti waiting to join a Buddhist monastery an idea which has been fed to her all her life by her father (Mohan Agashe) and one which she has never questioned. When Lama Norbu a senior lama from the monastery has a dream that the Buddhist teacher the Rinpoche has been reborn as a young child he sends Kaya to Delhi on a mission to bring him back to the monastery.