年轻的西班牙女教师莱雅将伤心的往事抛在脑后,只身来到尼泊尔首都加德满都,并在当地的一所学校做起了老师。初来乍到,当地的贫穷与教育上的等级歧视使莱雅感到非常震惊,她下决心要改善孩子们的学习状况。为了长期留在尼泊尔,她匆匆和一个当地人结婚,并走进加德满都的贫民窟,踏上了普及教育的征途。但很快她就发现,单凭自己一个人的力量是远远不够的。幸运的是,上天赐予了她一份意料之外的礼物:她爱上了那个和她结婚的“陌生人”……At the beginning of the 90s, Laia, a young and kind Catalan woman volunteers to work as a teacher in a school in Kathmandu. She is a determined person, driven solely by her love for children and she is willing to do whatever is needed to make her dream a reality, that is, to teach the needy and poor children of the slums. By her side stands Sharmila, a competent Nepalese teacher who is helping her with the language barrier, constantly trying to keep the necessary balance between Laia's unstoppable desire for radical change in the educational system and the traditional ways of the local impoverished castes. Already two months have passed when out of the blue, an imminent deportation due to her working visa's expiration becomes first in the long list of Laia's problems, threatening to put an end to her efforts. Against time and a corrupt and sluggish system that demands money, the solution comes in the form of a white marriage of convenience when a helpful monk, Riga, recommends Tsering...