Somewhere deep in a forest of Bhutan, there is a gathering every twelve years of men and women chosen by the Old Man to enjoy a few days of anonymity. Masked silhouettes participate in rituals, performances and dances. Faceless, the men and the women allow themselves to be lascivious, playful and daring. One man attends this event for the first time and enters the experience like a new born. He stumbles clumsily through the first days, but quickly adapts, and when he spots Red Wrathful, he becomes totally intoxicated with her. But his desire will lead him down a dangerous path.

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Khyentse Norbu (aka Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche) wrote and directed three award-winning films, The Cup (1999), Travellers and Magicians (2003) and Vara: A Blessing (2013). Travellers and Magicians was the first feature film to be produced in Bhutan. He studied filmmaking with Bernardo Bertolucci, after serving as consultant on the Italian director's 1993 film Little Buddha. Khyentse Norbu also appears in the 2009 documentary Tulku, where he discusses Buddhism and his views on the tulku phenomenon.

Vara: The Blessing (2013) opened South Korea's famed Busan International Film Festival. It was the first time that the South Korean festival has not opened with either a local Korean or a Chinese film.

His newest film Hema Hema: Sing Me a Song While I Wait, premiered at the Locarno Festival in 2016. It also screened at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival, where it received an honourable mention from the Platform Prize jury