The Kalbeliyas are a nomadic people of Rajasthan whose name translates roughly to "those who love the snakes," and this film follows their daily work and rituals across the desert. Director and musician Raphael Treza builds the film around portraits of individuals: Surumnath heads into the desert hunting cobras to sell their venom, while Biram's family works a wood-charcoal kiln. The camera tracks Kalbeliya jobs rarely shown on film, from shepherding and horse training to dance instruction, and joins a honey hunt that uses an unconventional method to get at a wild hive. A wedding and a funeral open up the tribe's more private customs, and a group of children from a separate antelope-hunting caste searches the desert for a lost camel. Elsewhere the film documents the technique used to catch the fucan, a rare and poisonous lizard, and closes at a Kalbeliyan festival that, according to the filmmakers, no camera had recorded before. The soundtrack is original, composed by Treza himself.