An exploration of the director's childhood in Lesotho and his adult experience of exile in Germany through the narratives of a young boy, a market woman, and a puppeteer.

Amongst the mountains of Lesotho, an 80-year-old widow winds up her affairs and makes arrangements for her burial. But when her village is threatened with resettlement due to the construction of a reservoir, she finds a new will to live and ignites a spirit of resistance within her community.