Dena was a busy midwife trapped on the hamster wheel of working motherhood. Adam was an eccentric Buddhist yogi passing as a hard-working dad. Bella was fourteen and wanted to be normal. Sophia was up for anything that involved skipping school. Together, they shouldered backpacks, walked away from their California life of all-night births, carpool schedules, and Cal Skate, and criss-crossed India and Nepal for eight months--a journey that led them...

"Viewers will see the female experience of Tibetan Buddhist nuns as full individuals beyond their monastic vows and religious practices, and how gender and modernity are molding contemporary spiritual practices in Nepal."--