Tashi, a lonely single man stays by himself in a defunct fuel station on the edge of a small town that is slowly being inundated by water from a dam reservoir that is being constructed nearby. He is unwilling to leave the place in spite of the coming danger and the warnings from the authorities as it holds a lot of memories for him. He meets Eshna, who comes to town with her husband, who is overseeing the construction of the dam. Despite the differences in their culture and unable to understand each other’s language, Tashi and Eshna slowly begin to form a close bond finding companionship from their loneliness in each other. As the dam nears completion and the authorities clamp down on the people to leave town. Now, Eshna must decide between the two paths that lay ahead of her and Tashi must decide whether to stay back and fight for his land and his world.