Here... or There?

A family living in poverty faces financial difficulties while striving to educate their daughters. The mother resorts to extraordinary measures to procure the traditional silk dresses needed for her kids to attend school.

After the sudden death of their parents, under the shock, two teenagers deny the trauma reality. Despite of their sad and cruel destiny, they have to leave school and look for jobs to survive. In this rough and nostalgic reality of a society in wild stages of develop¬ment, they lose their virginity and become adult A strange atmosphere results from the unguided, inert but increasingly desperate young generation as they face the harsh conditions of modern life through passive revolting acts.

A city in explosive development. Overcrowded streets of human beings, all on motorbikes, get mixed up into circulation streams, nobody knows neither their source nor their activities.A magma of images reflects, without consistency, all ideals of consumption.In this confusion, a particular destiny could be a daily life of everybody. Such as a common story: a grand-mother is dying, a divorced woman who does not want to take care of her teenager child, an anxious father initiates his son earning his own living, a teenager dreams of a lucky life without having to work, and new rules of transparency in global way of judgments implicate up to private life of a human being, pretending control the quality of his work... Nobody knows what will be happened next?

A cinematic journey to the death in searching for the paradise of youth on the highlands of northern Vietnam.