The Dalai Lama and China were unlikely partners in backing Ugyen Trinley as the 17th Karmapa, head of the Karma Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism. A Pawn in the struggle for Tibet, the youth made a bold move to chart his own destiny with a secret trek to gain the Black Crown.

A team of journalists retraces his story across the Himalayas from Tibet to Mustang, Rumtek in Sikkim and Dharamsala in a half-hour documentary, plus two short pieces: "Politics of Reincarnation" on the two rival Karmapas; and "Lost Child" on the real age of Ugyen Trinley.