Ta Xi
Cuando un avión que transporta algunos documentos de vital importancia colisiona en la denominada "Zona Muerta" del monte Everest, dos hombres que aseguran trabajar para el gobierno de la India ofrecen una suculenta recompensa a un grupo de rescate para que los recupere lo antes posible.
Dhondup has dedicated his whole life to the art of thangka painting. Before completing his final masterpiece, he unexpectedly discovers he will soon go blind. His son has always wanted to serve as his successor, but Dhondup refuses to accept his Westernized painting style. Frustrated with his son, Dhondup searches for his late thangka teacher’s reincarnation and identifies him as a young disabled man from the grassland who knows nothing about painting. Is he really the thangka master's reincarnation?
David Austin, a Scottish scholar of the Orient, befriends Awang Dunzhu on the bustling streets of Kathmandu, not knowing that the two will soon both become translators for opposing sides in the British invasion of Tibet.
