Nine-year-old Balmani runs away from the orphanage where he lives to return to his hometown Kathmandu. During the journey his path crosses that of a Bengal tiger cub, captured by a gang of greedy poachers ready to sell it on the black market. The boy manages to save it and decides to take it with him to the famous Taktsang monastery, known as the Tiger's Den, a fairy-tale place his mother always told him about. There, the cub will be safe thanks to the protection of Himalayan Buddhist monks. Thus begins an adventurous and complicated journey.
