For years the noncorpum inhabits the mind of the lady of the Tea Shack, manifesting as the voice of tree. The noncorpum subsequently transmigrates into Caspar, a Danish backpacker, after overhearing a guest at the Tea Shack explain the fable's Mongolian origins. Inhabiting Caspar, the noncorpum travels to Mongolia, where Caspar meets an Australian girl, Sherry; the pair initiate a relationship. The noncorpum transmigrates between a number of Mongolian natives, searching for a Mongolian writer said to know the origin of the fable.