Tashi (Ku) is a brilliant young monk who has just completed three years of solitary meditation in a remote hermitage. Now returned to his ancient monastery headed by Apo (Sangey), Tashi experiences a sexual awakening, which makes him question the spiritual values of his monastic existence. Believing he needs to experience worldly existence in order to renounce it, he leaves the monastery and marries Pema (Chung), a beautiful woman he meets while performing a harvest blessing. But although he finds great joy with his wife and newborn son, Tashi is unprepared for other aspects of everyday life such as jealousy of a neighbour, unethical farm trading practices, and his attraction to an exotic migrant worker at the harvest, making him reevaluate his spiritual destiny.

This is a great film about a spiritual love story, set in the majestic landscape of the Himalayas. Samsara has some of the most beautiful cinematography I have ever seen, and poses some wonderful questions as Tashi struggles to find spiritual enlightenment. This story entwines love and life in this world with personal destiny and comes to a surprise ending... Well worth it.