Two old friends catch up in the hotel room of the woman visiting. She has lived in China for many years and has come back to Lhasa for a visit, but has some health problems. The two discuss health issues as they get older, the efficacy of Tibetan medicine, the lives of their children, their husbands, and balancing their own jobs and home life. They remark about the changes in Lhasa that make it nearly unrecognizable to them and discuss going on pilgrimage together to some nearby sites.