The Only Son

Pema 19 is supposed to marry a girl from home a Nepali Himalayan village at an altitude of 13000 feet Pema grew up in a Kathmandu orphanage as poverty and illness forced his parents to give most of their 6 children away Today the unusual family is scattered around the globe It would be the only sons duty to tend to the family home in the mountains But Pema wants to study abroad and live a modern life