Li Yi (Han Geng) put the ashes of Mc Cartney (JÉRÉMIE ELKAÏM) in his travel bag, he is leaving for France on tonight’s plane. He has two tasks: to look for Mc Cartney’s ex-girlfriend in Paris and visit Mc Cartney’s mother in Provence and bury his ashes in the mountain. He arrived at Paris, looking everywhere for Mc Cartney’s ex-girlfriend. In the dusk, sitting on a cab in traffic, Li is reminded of the car accident that put a fracture between their friendship.
Li finally finds Mc Cartney’s ex-girlfriend and introduced himself as a friend of Mc Cartney’s. He told her that she was the only girl that Mc Cartney has ever mentioned to him. She looked up in surprise and told Li, “Really,” she paused, “you are a good person.” Then she told Li that she only really know Mc Cartney for a few months and really didn’t even consider themselves to be dating.
Li Yi was stayed quiet for a bit and finally told her that Mc Carney had died in Tibet.
Technically they had no legal liability to the boy who died in their car crash, but both Li and Mc Cartney felt that they should do something for their conscience. That’s why Mc Carney wend to Tibet. Li left Paris to go to Mc Cartney’s birth place, Provence, to visit his mother. The view along the way gave Li flash backs of the month spent in Tibet: Potala Palace, Lhasa, etc.
When Li goes down further in his memory lane following the letters Mc Cartney left him deeper into Tibet, Li became convinced that Mc Cartney is not dead and is still living in Tibet somewhere .
In Li’s Tibet trip, he saw a Tibetan wondering troupe, they were going to the same village Li was. The troupe mainly stops at each temple and perform an ancient play called “Zhu Ma”. Whenever the troupe stopped to perform, Li would join in and act a small role who mainly follows the prince around as he recites the holy text and recite with him.
Li finally arriving at the village, the same ancient village located in the snowy mountains as in the play, the same village where Mc Cartney died in a avalanche. In a final play in front of the village temple, Li Yi saw Mc Carney in the image of the revived Zhu Ma.
Half a month later, Li arrived at Provence, a beautiful town in the south of France. Li and Mc Cartney’s mother buried Mc Cartney’s ashes in the mountain cemetery. As the minister spoke on, Li was reminded of Mc Cartney’s funeral in the snowy mountains of Tibet half a month ago.
At night, Li suddenly woke up in shock, a ray of moonlight shines on a picture of a young Mc Cartney that hung at the foot of the bed, Li could help the tears running down his face.
