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"To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness." - Bertrand Russell

For Chaille Stovall and millions of other kids in the U.S., the idea of giving up everything - toys, TV, your friends and family - to go live in a monastery is crazy. But that's exactly what many Tibetan kids do, so Chaille decided to travel to India - and see for himself what becoming a monk is all about.

This half-hour family documentary is the latest project conceived, written and directed by Chaille Stovall, a precocious filmmaker who has won acclaim and awards for the five documentaries he's made since the tender age of nine. In "Little Monk," 15-year-old Chaille - who interviewed the Dalai Lama in his 1999 film Looking 4 God (footage from that interview is seen here) - travels all the way to India to meet with several exiled monks, including the 16-year-old Karmapa Lama, a Tibetan "high lama" and escapee from China. He then visits a six-year-old child (nicknamed "Little Potato") in southern India as he leaves his father, mother and sister and enters the Drepung Gomang monastery, where he'll live his entire life as a monk.