Raised in inland China, the protagonist Yangqing Lamu meets Baima, a young local guide, during an accidental trip to the plateau. The two travel deep into pastoral grasslands, embarking on a spiritual exploration of marriage, life and death, and morality amid the conflicts between dreams and reality, tradition and individuality. In the end, she achieves a profound reconciliation with both her homeland and her inner self in the vast wilderness.

It tells the legendary story of a Tibetan boy named Tianbao, who grew up from a small zaba in a temple to a national role model.