Tashi has been raised as a Buddhist monk since age five. When he gets erotic phantasms as an adolescent his spiritual master decides it`s time to taste profane life sending him on a journey in the real Himalayan world. Once he is told his hottest dream was real Tashi decides to leave the monastery and marries Pema the daughter of a rich farmer who was actually engaged with local stone-mason Jamayang. The ex-lama soon becomes a rich land-owner himself and makes a killing from his harvest by bringing it to the city instead of selling at half price to the local merchant Dewa but half of his next harvest perishes in a fire yet he comes trough and raises a bright son Karma. After committing infidelity contemplated for years and as he later hears from the promiscuous Indian labourer girl Tashi reconsiders his life.