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(woman speaking in foreign language)

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- [Jack] I have a name and
a face that few recognize.

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I prefer it that way.

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And I have a history with Tibet.

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Years ago, I was in prison
there called Drapchi.

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I was accused of spying
by the ruling government.

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For 12 years, I lived in
that bleakest of jails.

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A place of horror and violence.

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But I survived.

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I survived, perhaps, because
my will to live was strong.

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But in my heart, I know I
survived because of her.

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Yiga.

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It was a night I shall never forget.

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I was in despair.

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And I was about to put a
dull razor across my wrists.

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Just then, through the ancient stone walls

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on that moonlit night, as clear
as light, I heard her voice.

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I heard her sing a magnificent song.

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(woman singing in foreign language)

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- [Jack] She had been
mercilessly beaten that night

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for singing aloud.

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I found out about her the next day.

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I was told that she was
a famous opera singer.

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She was in transit to be
taken to a secret cell.

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I thanked her.

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Wished her well.

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Prayed for her release.

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Hoped she would make it.

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(woman singing in foreign language)

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(gong ringing)

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(static buzzing)

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- [Woman] In the furthest
regions of China,

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inhabited by the country's
Tibetan minority,

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a full uprising is underway.

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- [Man] Trapped there by the
military police and army.

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- [Woman] The locals assume
their spiritual leader--

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- [Man] But behind these cloudless seas,

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there's the Indian-based
Tibetan government-in-exile.

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- [Woman] State-run media
have blamed the Dalai Lama--

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- [Man] Witnesses are taking
shocking and extreme force.

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One comments he seen the
most number of suicides.

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Hard to imagine the desperation...

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(fire crackling)

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(woman singing in foreign language)

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- [Yiga] In Tibet, in my country, we pray.

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My people have lived so
high up in the world,

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close to the heavens.

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We are spiritual by birth.

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For centuries, we have
been people of prayer.

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Full of the belief that
compassion is the key

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to infinite knowledge.

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(woman singing in foreign language)

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- Pull over, huh?

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(speaking foreign language)

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Kathmandu, three people.

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Three.

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Three people.

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(woman singing in foreign language)

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- Is this okay, here?

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It's Kathmandu.

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(speaking foreign language)

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Pull over.

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You'll be okay here, huh?

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(Jack speaking foreign language)

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She's in search of
something to hold on to.

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For at this moment, she has nothing.

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Owns nothing.

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But she is alive,

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and she knows that's all
that matters for now.

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She has escaped, survived.

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She walks the streets, lost,

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yet with a strange sense of belonging.

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At this point, only her instincts work.

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She's receptive, observant, careful.

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She knows her life depends on it.

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She allows herself to think that perhaps,

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the worst is over.

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This new, noisy, strange
world elicits no fear

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compared to where she has been.

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She is infinitely patient, measured,

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rekindling the fire
within bit by tiny bit.

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Connecting, touching, feeling again.

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The fears return often,
always unannounced.

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They linger, creep in, confuse, disturb.

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But she battles on in her stubborn way.

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Often, she loses.

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But sometimes...

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Sometimes, she has her way.

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(dramatic music)

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(birds chirping)

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(traditional Tibetan music)

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(dramatic music)

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- [Jack] Things changed.

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Seasons came and went.

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And Yiga found contentment.

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Perhaps even happiness.

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Just as her teacher had said,

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Yiga needed to let go of her
past and embrace the present.

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(both speaking in foreign language)

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(plane engine roaring)

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(people shouting in foreign language)

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- [Jack] In March, 2008,
mass riots devastated Lhasa,

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and spread to other areas.

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Tibet was in the grip
of horrific destruction.

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And Tibetans inside were on the edge.

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(wings fluttering)

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(slow dramatic music)

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(bell chiming)

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- Hey!

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Hey!

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- What?
- Remember me?

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- Oh, so scared...

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Oh.
- On the border?

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What's your name?

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- Yiga.

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- Yiga?
- Yes.

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- I went to Tibet and I got this.

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- Oh!

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You brought this from Tibet?
- Yeah.

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(off-key music)

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- It doesn't sound that good.

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- [Jack] Doesn't sound very
good with me playing it either

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but, I thought maybe we could--

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- It's a little untuned.
- Yes.

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(Yiga laughing)

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- This thing, you have to tune this.

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- Do you know how to play this?

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- Yes.
- You can help me?

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- But we can't hear anything here.

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- There's this place down here--

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- Yes?

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- Which is a tea shop.

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And you can see the whole of Kathmandu.

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(off-key music)

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So where did you learn
to speak English then?

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- Oh.

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In Tibet.

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- In Tibet?
- Yes.

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I used to have private teacher.

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A lady from France.

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She used to teach me English.

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- Okay, so you had a French teacher.

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- Yes.

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- It reminds me that I
had a clarinet teacher,

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who taught me how to play the flute.

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- Oh, that's strange.

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- So--

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- Still he taught you?
- It's very strange.

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He taught me, but he
couldn't play the flute.

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He just sort of told me how to.

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- That's very strange.
- It's kind of weird, but--

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- And did it worked out?

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- It worked out, yes, so I can play flute.

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- So you're a musician?

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- Yes.

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When I was in England,

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I used to play in

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rock bands.

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- So you're a rocker?

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- I used to be a rocker.

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Now I'm a free spirit
in Kathmandu, you know?

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- Oh!

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But you used to play
guitar and sing together?

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- I can do that.

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So what about you?

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- Me?

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I used to an opera singer.

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- [Jack] Wow!

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- Tibetan opera singer.

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- Sounds much more
impressive than a rocker.

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- Well, it's very different
than Western style of singing,

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of course.

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- [Jack] I'd love to hear you sing.

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- Well, I am doing some
recordings in Kathmandu.

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So if it comes well, then
you can listen later, maybe.

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- That'd be amazing.
- Yes.

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- So good.

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Such a good view here, huh?

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So...

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So which direction is Tibet?

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- [Yiga] It's over there.

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- [Jack] Yiga?

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- [Yiga] Yes?

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- I wanted to ask you When
I met you at the border,

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what were you doing coming across and,

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do you travel a lot that way or...

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- Sorry, I got some
unfinished rituals to do.

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Right now I must go to Boudha.

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Thank you for the tea.

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- [Jack] And so they swapped
stories and philosophies.

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And each found in the
other an unlikely friend.

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"How odd", she had thought,

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"That he looks for answers outside.

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"Maybe he'll find himself on Freak Street.

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"Maybe in India.

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"Maybe in the jungles of Vietnam.

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"But", she had told him over and over,

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"The answers lie within.

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"Salvation must be earned.

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"Bit by tiny bit.

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"Step by tiny step."

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(woman singing in foreign language)

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(bells clanging)

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(Yiga and Tashi speaking foreign language)

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(wings fluttering)

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- Hi.
- Hi!

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Yiga, it's you!

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- Yes.
- Who's this?

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- My Lama brother.

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(Tashi speaking foreign language)

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- What he's saying?

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- He said you are going
in the opposite direction.

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- [Jack] All right.

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- See, everyone is going this way.

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- All right, what's wrong with that?

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- As you see, we
Buddhists, we go this way.

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Clockwise.

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- Right.

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So I've got to do,

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I've got to do the same
thing as everyone else?

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- Yes, yes.

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Our traditional way is
to go this way always.

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Never other way around.

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- Right.
- Yes.

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- And do you,

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do you both think this all, this works?

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- He says, of course.

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- [Jack] Is there something
specific that you're,

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you come here for, to
get peace of mind for?

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- [Jack] She was watched, marked.

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As a cause of insecurity and
concern to the authorities,

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from the day she resisted
a cultural makeover.

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The day she refused to stop singing.

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She was a threat because of her music.

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A medium considered both
potent and dangerous.

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Hers was a voice that could
take the hidden stories of Tibet

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to the world at large.

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(woman singing in foreign language)

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(Yiga speaking foreign language)

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(gun firing)

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(dramatic music)

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- [Yiga] The gunshot that
killed my spiritual teacher

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killed a part of me as well.

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It wasn't the first.

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And unfortunately shan't be the last.

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There were others.

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Many of them were either
kidnapped like I was,

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or else snatched during the midnight raids

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that had become so common across Tibet,

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like some cruel echo from Nazi Germany.

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The main Drapchi Prison in Lhasa

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used to be a peaceful monastery.

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And they turned it into this
horrid place of torture,

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where under the guise of a prison,

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crimes against Tibetans
would go unnoticed.

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This is where I got the first
taste of what it feels like

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to be physically broken down.

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(woman screaming)

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Some people they keep in the main prison.

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But there are also
remote underground cells,

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for those who won't break down so easily.

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Their methods of torture are brutal.

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00:31:16,275 --> 00:31:17,876
Inhuman.

267
00:31:17,876 --> 00:31:19,459
And very effective.

268
00:31:27,327 --> 00:31:29,535
It would have been much easier for them

269
00:31:29,535 --> 00:31:33,071
to have just shot me or the others.

270
00:31:33,071 --> 00:31:34,821
It didn't make sense.

271
00:31:37,401 --> 00:31:41,651
Slowly I realized that
what they actually planned

272
00:31:41,651 --> 00:31:44,484
was far worse than I had imagined.

273
00:31:55,309 --> 00:31:59,958
Months passed and I was
still breathing in and out

274
00:31:59,958 --> 00:32:02,691
in a rhythm I could no longer understand,

275
00:32:02,691 --> 00:32:04,858
or even really care about.

276
00:32:07,763 --> 00:32:11,930
I had good days where everything
was too clear and too real.

277
00:32:13,393 --> 00:32:16,808
But mostly, I had terrible insane days.

278
00:32:16,808 --> 00:32:20,087
Hatred and fear burning me away inside,

279
00:32:20,087 --> 00:32:22,587
wasting what God had given me.

280
00:32:27,026 --> 00:32:29,418
I wrote songs in my head.

281
00:32:29,418 --> 00:32:33,055
But they weren't songs of hope or of joy.

282
00:32:33,055 --> 00:32:36,138
They were songs of violence and hate.

283
00:32:43,239 --> 00:32:46,419
On my better days, I would
sometimes think of my friends

284
00:32:46,419 --> 00:32:48,343
who had disappeared.

285
00:32:48,343 --> 00:32:51,701
Now seen only on missing person posters,

286
00:32:51,701 --> 00:32:55,407
used to get international
attention or sympathy.

287
00:32:55,407 --> 00:32:58,511
Perhaps, the people who
did this meant well.

288
00:32:58,511 --> 00:33:01,890
All I knew was, they couldn't help me.

289
00:33:01,890 --> 00:33:03,544
(gun firing)

290
00:33:03,544 --> 00:33:06,127
(somber music)

291
00:33:19,235 --> 00:33:21,735
(dog barking)

292
00:34:04,866 --> 00:34:07,895
- [Yiga] And then one day just like that,

293
00:34:07,895 --> 00:34:10,145
I discovered a hollow tile.

294
00:34:15,337 --> 00:34:19,004
In that instant, my
life changed completely.

295
00:34:20,079 --> 00:34:23,369
And I started to plan for my escape.

296
00:34:23,369 --> 00:34:24,721
To run away.

297
00:34:24,721 --> 00:34:25,638
To be free.

298
00:34:26,940 --> 00:34:29,107
My life had purpose again.

299
00:34:38,006 --> 00:34:41,609
I discovered the melting
snow and begun to feel

300
00:34:41,609 --> 00:34:44,692
the warmth of freedom stir inside me.

301
00:34:48,991 --> 00:34:51,480
To the southwest was Nepal.

302
00:34:51,480 --> 00:34:53,522
I'll try to reach there.

303
00:34:53,522 --> 00:34:55,855
It is not the easiest route.

304
00:34:57,096 --> 00:34:59,242
But it is the shortest.

305
00:34:59,242 --> 00:35:02,725
Or at least, it is the one I knew about,

306
00:35:02,725 --> 00:35:05,142
had heard of or had sense of.

307
00:35:08,881 --> 00:35:11,416
In the silence of my prison,

308
00:35:11,416 --> 00:35:15,583
I had often thought about, who
I was, what I was here for?

309
00:35:17,721 --> 00:35:19,878
Would I survive?

310
00:35:19,878 --> 00:35:21,795
I wanted to sing again.

311
00:35:23,036 --> 00:35:24,453
I needed to sing.

312
00:35:26,145 --> 00:35:28,562
Would I ever get out of here?

313
00:35:30,941 --> 00:35:33,941
(doorknob rattling)

314
00:35:39,645 --> 00:35:43,645
(man speaking foreign language)

315
00:36:03,574 --> 00:36:05,890
- [Yiga] I was not afraid of mountains.

316
00:36:05,890 --> 00:36:07,852
Their spirits would guide me.

317
00:36:07,852 --> 00:36:11,077
I was not afraid of hunger or thirst.

318
00:36:11,077 --> 00:36:12,962
My father once told me,

319
00:36:12,962 --> 00:36:17,094
"What doesn't kill you,
only makes you stronger."

320
00:36:17,094 --> 00:36:21,917
My body was weak, but idea
of freedom gave me strength.

321
00:36:21,917 --> 00:36:25,085
But it was my mind I
had to be careful about.

322
00:36:25,085 --> 00:36:28,353
It was there that I
must not let fear enter.

323
00:36:28,353 --> 00:36:31,686
For if that happened, all would be lost.

324
00:36:33,733 --> 00:36:36,296
Shen often told us that
there were soldiers

325
00:36:36,296 --> 00:36:40,187
everywhere outside, guarding the house.

326
00:36:40,187 --> 00:36:44,161
They lurked behind the boulders,
and near the tree line.

327
00:36:44,161 --> 00:36:48,328
And had orders to shoot anyone
who dared to step outside.

328
00:36:54,236 --> 00:36:58,004
There were prisoners before
me who tried escaping.

329
00:36:58,004 --> 00:37:02,008
But none of them were ever heard of again.

330
00:37:02,008 --> 00:37:05,156
The doubts and fears
were slowly killing me.

331
00:37:05,156 --> 00:37:07,080
I was terrified.

332
00:37:07,080 --> 00:37:10,355
But eventually, I did manage
to stop thinking about

333
00:37:10,355 --> 00:37:12,772
what could go wrong.

334
00:37:12,772 --> 00:37:14,272
Then, it was time.

335
00:37:34,577 --> 00:37:37,593
Old Gonpo had been watching
me plan and prepare

336
00:37:37,593 --> 00:37:38,760
for weeks now.

337
00:37:41,375 --> 00:37:45,042
He was the only one I
would say goodbye to.

338
00:38:02,039 --> 00:38:04,041
- [Yiga] And I suddenly realized

339
00:38:04,041 --> 00:38:06,781
he did hear and he did speak.

340
00:38:06,781 --> 00:38:09,266
But only when he chose to.

341
00:38:09,266 --> 00:38:11,349
That was his middle path.

342
00:39:40,099 --> 00:39:42,237
(dog barking)

343
00:39:42,237 --> 00:39:44,987
(dramatic music)

344
00:40:22,731 --> 00:40:25,398
(gate creaking)

345
00:40:59,195 --> 00:41:02,028
(woman screaming)

346
00:41:03,506 --> 00:41:05,089
I was free of fear.

347
00:41:06,382 --> 00:41:10,298
No soldiers sprung out of
the bushes and shot me down.

348
00:41:10,298 --> 00:41:13,259
No one saw me or followed me.

349
00:41:13,259 --> 00:41:17,796
It was all a cruel game
that they played on us.

350
00:41:17,796 --> 00:41:19,762
I saw it all now.

351
00:41:19,762 --> 00:41:21,904
Shen had lied to us.

352
00:41:21,904 --> 00:41:25,543
There were no soldiers with
guns guarding that house.

353
00:41:25,543 --> 00:41:27,302
But we had believed him.

354
00:41:27,302 --> 00:41:31,469
And he had used our own fears
to keep us caged like animals.

355
00:41:37,102 --> 00:41:39,102
I had stopped thinking.

356
00:41:44,600 --> 00:41:46,834
I was in the middle of nowhere.

357
00:41:46,834 --> 00:41:49,472
But I knew, if I just kept going,

358
00:41:49,472 --> 00:41:51,923
I would find help, sooner or later.

359
00:41:51,923 --> 00:41:54,423
(dog barking)

360
00:41:56,799 --> 00:41:59,309
I had to get to the border.

361
00:41:59,309 --> 00:42:02,241
It might take me months on foot.

362
00:42:02,241 --> 00:42:04,737
But somehow, I would get there.

363
00:42:04,737 --> 00:42:06,487
So I just kept going.

364
00:42:24,694 --> 00:42:26,713
I just kept moving.

365
00:42:26,713 --> 00:42:28,051
Always moving.

366
00:42:28,051 --> 00:42:32,218
Further and further and further
and further and further...

367
00:42:33,429 --> 00:42:36,012
(somber music)

368
00:42:44,558 --> 00:42:48,616
And suddenly, I was in the
lap of my beloved mountains,

369
00:42:48,616 --> 00:42:51,283
under the protection of my gods.

370
00:42:52,818 --> 00:42:56,485
(people conversing quietly)

371
00:43:04,207 --> 00:43:08,374
Well, the past is just a
dream, so don't worry about it.

372
00:43:09,413 --> 00:43:12,413
Just nothing than a dream, the past.

373
00:43:13,937 --> 00:43:15,699
I want to give you this.

374
00:43:15,699 --> 00:43:17,308
This is for you, one of my tracks.

375
00:43:17,308 --> 00:43:18,141
- Thank you so much.

376
00:43:18,141 --> 00:43:18,974
- You are welcome.
- It's pretty good.

377
00:43:18,974 --> 00:43:19,807
- Yeah.

378
00:43:23,465 --> 00:43:26,215
(dramatic music)

379
00:43:49,271 --> 00:43:51,854
(upbeat music)

380
00:44:06,356 --> 00:44:10,523
(woman singing in foreign language)

381
00:44:34,340 --> 00:44:37,007
(keys jingling)

382
00:45:14,977 --> 00:45:17,430
(dog barking)

383
00:45:17,430 --> 00:45:20,263
(dramatic music)

384
00:46:15,814 --> 00:46:18,481
(intense music)

385
00:46:38,476 --> 00:46:41,007
- [Jack] She moves further away now.

386
00:46:41,007 --> 00:46:43,237
Far away from all the familiar sounds

387
00:46:43,237 --> 00:46:45,666
and smells of the East.

388
00:46:45,666 --> 00:46:48,475
Leaving on a secure unlisted flight.

389
00:46:48,475 --> 00:46:51,387
She, and others like her,
away from the persecution

390
00:46:51,387 --> 00:46:53,887
they can still face if caught.

391
00:46:55,641 --> 00:46:59,305
But she leaves behind a piece of her soul.

392
00:46:59,305 --> 00:47:02,713
A slice of her healing process.

393
00:47:02,713 --> 00:47:05,796
A tantalizing hope of a kinder world.

394
00:47:13,172 --> 00:47:15,359
For every person who has found something,

395
00:47:15,359 --> 00:47:17,311
or is on the verge,

396
00:47:17,311 --> 00:47:20,478
one still seeking will be left behind.

397
00:48:14,629 --> 00:48:17,307
Yiga rested in India for a few weeks,

398
00:48:17,307 --> 00:48:21,170
and was joined by other
Tibetans en route to Europe.

399
00:48:21,170 --> 00:48:23,419
All of them were from Lhasa.

400
00:48:23,419 --> 00:48:25,752
All were to remain in exile.

401
00:48:40,413 --> 00:48:43,330
(insects chirping)

402
00:48:51,053 --> 00:48:53,303
(knocking)

403
00:49:05,305 --> 00:49:06,138
Tashi!

404
00:49:09,164 --> 00:49:10,339
Have you seen Yiga?

405
00:49:10,339 --> 00:49:11,422
- She's gone.

406
00:49:24,392 --> 00:49:28,872
- [Jack] And so, Yiga did let
go of her past, and present.

407
00:49:28,872 --> 00:49:31,622
(dramatic music)

408
00:49:47,123 --> 00:49:49,790
(bell clanging)

409
00:50:31,460 --> 00:50:33,877
It was September When Yiga finally left

410
00:50:33,877 --> 00:50:36,515
for an uncertain future.

411
00:50:36,515 --> 00:50:39,102
Leaving behind her a precious gift;

412
00:50:39,102 --> 00:50:43,269
A relationship that was to
remain, for her, impossible.

413
00:51:10,807 --> 00:51:13,390
(upbeat music)

414
00:51:14,395 --> 00:51:17,575
- [Woman] Like Tibet loves
us, we love our country.

415
00:51:17,575 --> 00:51:19,775
But we have a strong spirit.

416
00:51:19,775 --> 00:51:23,858
(people applauding and cheering)

417
00:51:31,606 --> 00:51:35,773
(woman singing in foreign language)

418
00:52:21,022 --> 00:52:24,022
(people applauding)

419
00:53:31,749 --> 00:53:33,975
- [Jack] I attended many of her concerts.

420
00:53:33,975 --> 00:53:36,197
I often thought of meeting her.

421
00:53:36,197 --> 00:53:40,135
But for all these years,
something held me back.

422
00:53:40,135 --> 00:53:42,318
But that was then.

423
00:53:42,318 --> 00:53:46,142
A Tibetan cafe in Paris was
to be our meeting place.

424
00:53:46,142 --> 00:53:48,809
And all we spoke about was hope.

425
00:53:50,587 --> 00:53:52,504
Do you still have hope?

426
00:53:54,185 --> 00:53:57,153
- There is a saying in Tibetan.

427
00:53:57,153 --> 00:54:01,320
"Tragedy must be utilized
as a source of strength."

428
00:54:03,109 --> 00:54:04,776
We believe in karma.

429
00:54:05,681 --> 00:54:08,098
What goes around, comes back.

430
00:54:10,063 --> 00:54:12,337
And everything changes.

431
00:54:12,337 --> 00:54:14,393
Nothing is forever.

432
00:54:14,393 --> 00:54:16,560
We don't hate our enemies.

433
00:54:17,910 --> 00:54:21,046
Just because we want to be ourself.

434
00:54:21,046 --> 00:54:23,181
To speak our own language.

435
00:54:23,181 --> 00:54:25,014
To have our own books.

436
00:54:25,951 --> 00:54:28,603
To sing our own songs.

437
00:54:28,603 --> 00:54:30,353
Tibetan people pay...

438
00:54:32,995 --> 00:54:35,102
Too high a price.

439
00:54:35,102 --> 00:54:36,199
Too high.

440
00:54:36,199 --> 00:54:39,032
(dramatic music)

441
00:54:43,023 --> 00:54:45,193
When you see suffering close to you,

442
00:54:45,193 --> 00:54:47,701
only then you know what is real suffering.

443
00:54:47,701 --> 00:54:51,017
Monasteries are surrounded
by army and police.

444
00:54:51,017 --> 00:54:53,267
Cities are surrounded by them.

445
00:54:53,267 --> 00:54:55,449
They will mark you and then
they'll come to get you

446
00:54:55,449 --> 00:54:56,532
in the night.

447
00:54:59,792 --> 00:55:02,125
How can you hurt each other?

448
00:55:02,977 --> 00:55:05,060
Especially for no reason.

449
00:55:06,101 --> 00:55:10,285
If the Dalai Lama will
not teach, who will teach?

450
00:55:10,285 --> 00:55:14,979
To feel compassionate towards
each other and to everything?

451
00:55:14,979 --> 00:55:19,146
We don't have to wait until
all the people self-immolate.

452
00:55:32,971 --> 00:55:34,753
- And you still have hope?

453
00:55:34,753 --> 00:55:36,417
- Yes, I do.

454
00:55:36,417 --> 00:55:38,913
It might take time, but
we don't have the luxury

455
00:55:38,913 --> 00:55:40,413
of giving up hope.

456
00:55:41,432 --> 00:55:43,765
One day, Tibet will be free.

457
00:56:01,570 --> 00:56:04,403
(dramatic music)

458
00:56:10,722 --> 00:56:13,582
- [Jack] She believes with
her formidable conviction

459
00:56:13,582 --> 00:56:17,000
that her cries will not always fall short.

460
00:56:17,000 --> 00:56:19,562
The frequent periods of utter despair,

461
00:56:19,562 --> 00:56:23,656
no match against her quiet inner strength.

462
00:56:23,656 --> 00:56:26,489
She wants, needs even, to forgive.

463
00:56:27,436 --> 00:56:28,974
But not forget.

464
00:56:28,974 --> 00:56:29,891
Never that.

465
00:56:31,105 --> 00:56:35,188
It is that need that helps
keeps her music alive.

466
00:56:38,348 --> 00:56:39,984
The passion she feels,

467
00:56:39,984 --> 00:56:42,512
combined with the
compassion she practices,

468
00:56:42,512 --> 00:56:46,345
the truth she seeks,
it's beyond any reproach.

469
00:56:49,493 --> 00:56:52,392
I don't believe I'll ever meet her again.

470
00:56:52,392 --> 00:56:56,212
But I will always follow
her in the shadows.

471
00:56:56,212 --> 00:56:57,462
That is my way.

472
00:56:58,358 --> 00:57:01,608
As she walks that tenuous path of hope.

473
00:57:18,910 --> 00:57:20,745
She travels the world.

474
00:57:20,745 --> 00:57:22,549
Her voice carries within it

475
00:57:22,549 --> 00:57:25,279
the surreal sounds of her home country.

476
00:57:25,279 --> 00:57:27,245
The whispering high winds.

477
00:57:27,245 --> 00:57:29,555
The murmuring still waters.

478
00:57:29,555 --> 00:57:32,972
The fluttering of a million prayer flags.

479
00:57:35,617 --> 00:57:37,344
She holds on to her roots and values

480
00:57:37,344 --> 00:57:39,920
with a steely determination.

481
00:57:39,920 --> 00:57:40,753
She prays.

482
00:57:44,444 --> 00:57:46,680
As she prays, even for
those who are unaware

483
00:57:46,680 --> 00:57:50,597
of the future they are
creating for themselves.

484
00:58:09,530 --> 00:58:12,363
Often, she looks back at her life.

485
00:58:13,317 --> 00:58:16,967
She tries to unlock the
mysteries of her turbulent past.

486
00:58:16,967 --> 00:58:20,154
She wonders about divine intervention.

487
00:58:20,154 --> 00:58:23,174
She gives thanks for the
teacher who invoked hope in her,

488
00:58:23,174 --> 00:58:25,341
beyond even his own death.

489
00:58:41,384 --> 00:58:43,801
(gun firing)

490
00:59:00,484 --> 00:59:03,216
- [Yiga] Why did my master ask me to visit

491
00:59:03,216 --> 00:59:06,466
that particular place if I needed help?

492
00:59:11,927 --> 00:59:16,094
How often did little Tashi
repeat my master's exact words?

493
00:59:26,105 --> 00:59:30,272
How did I miss that playful,
broken-toothed smile?

494
00:59:33,078 --> 00:59:36,161
That level of wisdom in one so young?

495
00:59:39,760 --> 00:59:41,607
Did I listen to him carefully?

496
00:59:41,607 --> 00:59:44,690
Or was I too busy being free to care?

497
00:59:53,968 --> 00:59:57,178
Why haven't I thought of all this before?

498
00:59:57,178 --> 01:00:01,345
(woman singing in foreign language)

499
01:00:48,548 --> 01:00:50,798
- [Yiga] Maybe my gods
were watching over me,

500
01:00:50,798 --> 01:00:53,100
giving me strength.

501
01:00:53,100 --> 01:00:55,767
Maybe they watch over all of us.

502
01:00:56,806 --> 01:00:57,723
Don't they?

503
01:00:58,720 --> 01:01:02,887
(woman singing in foreign language)

504
01:01:22,377 --> 01:01:26,544
- [Yiga] As long as wise
spirits live, Tibet will live.

505
01:01:29,317 --> 01:01:33,051
As soon as the wise spirits deem it fit,

506
01:01:33,051 --> 01:01:35,349
Tibet too will be free.

507
01:01:35,349 --> 01:01:37,627
I believe in that future.

508
01:01:37,627 --> 01:01:40,043
My songs will celebrate that future,

509
01:01:40,043 --> 01:01:41,995
where my people will live free

510
01:01:41,995 --> 01:01:44,578
in the land of their ancestors.

511
01:01:58,195 --> 01:02:02,392
- [Jack] Drapchi continues to
be Tibet's most feared prison.

512
01:02:02,392 --> 01:02:04,470
It houses nearly 500 prisoners,

513
01:02:04,470 --> 01:02:08,491
in conditions I can only
describe as inhumane.

514
01:02:08,491 --> 01:02:11,061
Most of them, political prisoners.

515
01:02:11,061 --> 01:02:12,728
All of them Tibetan.

516
01:02:17,499 --> 01:02:21,666
The spirit of her voice still
echoes within its walls.

517
01:02:23,103 --> 01:02:25,186
She still prays for them.

518
01:02:33,710 --> 01:02:37,793
(woman singing foreign language)

519
01:02:45,362 --> 01:02:47,220
- [Jack] And Yiga sings.

520
01:02:47,220 --> 01:02:50,288
Her songs are her strength
and her reason to be.

521
01:02:50,288 --> 01:02:53,952
Her songs are testament to
her struggle to live free.

522
01:02:53,952 --> 01:02:57,279
Some voices can never be silenced.

523
01:02:57,279 --> 01:02:58,946
Hers is one of them.

524
01:02:59,856 --> 01:03:04,023
(woman singing in foreign language)