This is the story of how some of India's most remarkable musical instruments and traditions have been maintained for millennia.
Certain villages in the rural northeast have passed down songs and musical skills from person to person for thousands of years. Village musicians celebrate distinctive instruments, sounds, and techniques. Their music revolves around rural life, farming, and ancestral ways: the skill of the "have-nots" in obtaining food from the "haves"; the simple faith expressed by launching oneself upon the river of life; there are even sounds expressing chickens growing into hens and roosters.
The film crew accompanied a scholar who conducted research on this remarkable music in India's northeastern rural areas for three years.