Travellers and Magicians (2004)

A young government official named Dondup who is smitten with America he even has a denim gho dreams of escaping there while stuck in a beautiful but isolated village He hopes to connect in the US with a visa out of the country He misses the one bus out of town to Thimphu however and is forced to hitchhike and walk along the Lateral Road to the west accompanied by an apple seller a Buddhist monk with his ornate dragonheaded dramyin a drunk a widowed rice paper maker and his beautiful daughter Sonam