Trailer for The Search courtesy of Youku.
A movie director travels through Tibetan areas of Qinghai and Gansu provinces, looking for actors to cast in his film of classic Tibetan opera Drime Kunden. Accompanied by a producer, a cameraman and a driver, he proceeds through one spectacular mountainscape after another, interviewing and auditioning locals. He finds the perfect actress to play the female lead, but she insists that she will only participate if they find her former boyfriend, now a teacher in a provincial town. They agree. As they drive, the producer reveals that he was a former monk, with a love story to share of his own.