When a bomb endangers the Pha Tang temple, 'Satu' an orphan child laborer decides to head north through the rich and feral landscape of Laos in search of his long lost mother with his new photojournalist friend 'Bo'.

The wife of a colonial governor confronts a devastating curse after her son removes a deathless woman from a thousand-year-old Angkorian temple in the jungles of southern Laos.