10 March 1959. In the dead of night about 100 Tibetan officials, khampas and muleteers, dressed as soldiers of Chinese Red Army and made their escape through the snowy Himalayas. Traveling only at nights, using lamaseries and villages as shelters to hide during the day; these men had one singular aim – to ensure that the 23-year-old 14th Dalai Lama escaped the cruel trap set by Mao Zedong.
From here starts the gruesome tragedy marked with spying, censoring, punishing and exiling Tibetans.