Since 2009, at least 118 Tibetans have set themselves on fire in protest against Chinese rule, and 107 of them have died. This film traces that wave of self-immolations through smuggled video shot inside Tibet, first-hand accounts from family members and witnesses, and interviews with scholars, exiled officials, and former monks who try to explain what drove so many people, many of them young monks and nuns, to choose this particular death. The footage is often raw and unpolished, filmed on hidden phones and passed out of the region at real risk to whoever carried it. Interviewees lay out the pressures behind the protests: restrictions on religious practice, the suppression of Tibetan language and culture, and a political dead end that leaves almost no other visible way to object. The film also presents the Chinese government's position and its crackdown on reporting from Tibetan areas, including monasteries placed under surveillance and communities cut off from outside contact. It closes without resolution, because the crisis it documents was still unfolding as the film was made.