Tibet's recent history unfolds across nine journeys the filmmakers made through Tibet, India, and Nepal over ten years, gathering footage that had never been assembled in one place. Cameras follow horse races run by Khamba warriors, yak caravans crossing Himalayan passes on routes traders have used for centuries, and rituals performed inside remote monasteries rarely opened to outsiders. The film also shows the holy city of Lhasa's less reverent side, including the brothels operating along its streets, setting religious devotion against everyday commerce in the same frame. Personal interviews with Tibetans carry the harder material: accounts of what happened under Chinese rule, told by people who lived through it, paired with undercover footage and archival images smuggled out or hidden for decades. The film moves between the sacred and the political without separating them, treating monastery ritual and occupation history as parts of the same story. It works as both a record of Tibetan culture, from nomadic life to monastic practice, and as testimony about what that culture has survived.