"The Shepherdess," however ... Bujosa is keen to emphasize, however, that the film is "not heavy drama. There's a playful element to it." Also, this is a de-dramatizing vision of intersexuality.

She is one of the last shepherdesses who still lives with her flock in the heights of the Gya-Miru valley in Ladakh. At the age of 50, Tsering is the youngest in her village to drive her 350 goats ...

Trapped between her cowardly husband and regular harassment by a local authority, Laila, a nomadic shepherdess, decides to break out of her old identity and chart a new path.