이야기를 나누고, 생활하고, 사색하는 모습을 통해 5대륙 10개국 주인공들의 생각, 아이디어, 경험, 그리고 꿈이 펼쳐진다. 이 집합적 이야기들은 아르헨티나 작가 호르헤 루이스 보르헤스가 “상상할 수 없는 우주”라 부른 것과의 관련 속에서 퍼즐의 조각들로서 기능한다.
Kathmandu, Nepal, early 1990s. Laia, a young teacher from Catalonia, Spain, works at a local school in the slums of the city where poverty reigns. Her personal path, besieged by a harsh sum of indescribable social conditions, will be a struggle against a nefarious educational system, but a journey of self-discovery as well.
With his elderly grandfather, seven year old Chandra walks through earthquake-hit Kathmandu to visit his mother and newborn sibling in hospital.
On a summer day, from his balcony, the filmmaker observes two women diligently cutting grass for their cows on one of the last remaining vacant plots of Kathmandu.
The Odd Monk is a personal journey through modern day Buddhism. German first time Filmmaker Jesco Puluj travels around the world, meeting a variety of monks and nuns to discover the essence of Buddhism.