In 1949 the Chinese People's Liberation Army enters the Kham region of eastern Tibet, and by 1959 thousands of Tibetans have fled into exile across India and Nepal. This eight-part series, filmed across India starting in November 2010, follows that diaspora's history through one guide: a Tibetan-born man who has been a monk, a freedom fighter, a diplomat, a representative of the Dalai Lama, and a member of parliament, and who later founded a charity that has worked inside Tibet and in exile for twenty-five years. Cameras also sit with the community around him, monks and nuns, students and teachers, artists, musicians, farmers, and officials, watching daily routines rather than staged interviews alone. The series tracks the tension running through exile life: tantric Buddhist practice against modern secular pressures, a traditional theocratic structure giving way to democratic institutions, and a generation caught between resignation to loss and determination to preserve a culture displaced sixty years earlier.