The story involves a gifted young rock drummer named Bay who commits a grisly murder and becomes a fugitive from the law. Trained by a monk in a style of drumming called the Drums of the Gods, which treats drumming as a martial art for the forces of good, he must face his opposite drummer from the dark side.
Amid the mist in the lush green mountains of the northern most part of Thailand, at a hill tribe village that is full of fun and laughter, Tee Por, Lor Sha and Ma Zhu, three good-humored hill tribe men who are naive but not naive.