In these times of global warming and climate change, there are many who rave and rant against the furies man has unleashed on the environment. There are few who apply ointment on its wounds. This film is about one such man. Chewang Norphel is a 78-year-old engineer in Leh who almost singularly, over the last 15 years, has invented, implemented and virtually perfected the art and science of a technology that is helping provide a solution to this ecological fiasco one village at a time. His solution is as sensational as it is possible. He uses common sense and elementary observational science to create artificial glaciers - an idea whose beauty lies in its immense practicality and incredible simplicity. The feisty, feral and ridiculously photogenic land of Ladakh is grappling with an alarming water scarcity situation. In this high altitude desert where the melting of glaciers has been the traditional source of fresh water, a warmer planet is playing havoc with lifestyles and the ecology. With glaciers melting faster and leaving the people quite literally high and dry, fresh water is more precious than oil, especially post the Ladakhi summer. This film is a tribute to a man, who relentlessly and persistently carries on a lone struggle against an insipid bureaucracy, myopic governance and an infuriated, aching planet hitting back in retaliation. His crusade is to see his idea implemented on a grand scale in a sparsely populated region - with the sole mission of keeping this patch of earth inhabitable for the great-grandchildren of Ladakh.
—Anonymous