After an ethnobotanical overview of the main significant plant species in the region concerned, the Lang-Biang plateau, near Dalat, the film focuses on the operating chain of rice cultivation among the Làc.
On the highlands of South Vietnam, the cultivation of mountain rice (paddy) brings more than food to men, it is incorporated into the animist religion of these mountain proto-Indo-Chinese tribes (with recording of traditional songs in the mountain language).
A tribe from South Vietnam lives in the forest and through the forest. In villages, throughout the year, mountaineers, by various techniques, make what they need. The film presents the techniques related to pottery, sparterie, basketry, forging, weaving, housing construction, etc. (recording of traditional songs in the mountain language).
