Director Martín Solá captures fragments from an enigmatic universe: the life of Metok – a Buddhist nun who, as a child, left her Tibetan family in order to pursue the spiritual path, in a monastery from Nepal. Having reached adulthood and being initiated into the secrets of traditional medicine, Metok wishes to return to her natal village to help a woman give birth, as well as to see her family again, and she is ready to face all the obstacles and the dangers that lurk on the way to Tibet. Metok is both an open and closed book: rather untalkative and maintaining an almost mystical mysteriousness, she is nevertheless full of disarming sincerity. Opaque and transparent, devoted to her spiritual mission, and at the same time showing an almost childish homesickness, Metok is an unusual character, whom the director fails to grasp completely. The filmmaker translates what cannot be expressed in words through the poetry of images and sounds, which evoke the depth and the stillness of this remarkable being’s inner universe. (Monica Stan)