This film shares the voices of indigenous Lepcha activists in the Eastern Himalaya as they unite to protest hydro-development in their protected national park, Dzongu. A pristine, remote holy land, Dzongu is located in Sikkim, a border state between China and India. Annexed by the government of India in 1975, Sikkim is strategic for India’s military and energy needs. As such, Sikkim is currently pressured to produce thousands of megawatts of hydroelectricity from its central river called the Teesta. Unfortunately for the Lepchas, the Teesta river—along with its tributaries—is believed to be a channel through which departed souls travel to their ancestral resting places at the base of the Himalayas. The mega-dams being proposed threaten these beliefs by putting the river into a tunnel and exporting it out of Sikkim. Frustrated by the lack of response to their legal petitions and public rallies by the State and National governments, the Lepchas began Satyagraha a 916 day hunger strike in an effort to be heard.