Ngô Xuân An

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 woman tries to cling onto dimming links to her past after inheriting a pygmy slow loris from her long-estranged husband; meanwhile, her niece prepares for marriage as the young couple ponders their gloomy future together. The present and the complex echoes of Vietnamese history are entwined before a contemplative and poetic perspective.

A rusting dream, a mermaid, with a 9-spike crown.