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When Bouachan comes to open her shop in the morning,
she finds her younger brother, Nock asleep at the table. He drank
Lao whisky all night with his friends. Bouachan tries to wake him
up so they can tidy up and open the shop, but Nock does not respond.
Their father hears Bouachan shouting and comes in to see why. When
she shows him the sleeping Nock, her father shakes his son awake and
makes him agree to help sister to put things in the shop in order.
Then the father goes to look after his cows in the garden.
A stranger enters the shop. Bouachan asks him what he would like to
buy. He inquires about prices of goods but he doesn’t seem interested
in buying them. He comes very close to Bouachan as he is asking and
she feels annoyed, so she goes outside to make it clear that she doesn’t
approve. Now only Nock and the stranger are alone in the shop. The
stranger reveals that he is a drug dealer, offers Nock some amphetamines,
suggesting that they would give him energy. Nock says he doesn’t
have any money. The dealer says that Nock can pay him in 2 weeks time,
when he has the money together and leaves him with a bag of tablets.
Bouachan’s friends, Noi and Dockeo, who are now working in a
night club in town, arrive in the village for a visit. They boast
to Bouachan about their urban lifestyle and show her their gold necklaces,
expensive watches and mobile phones and tell her she could find better
paid work if she came to work in their restaurant in town. Bouachan
asks her father for permission to go to town to buy some things for
the shop. Father allows her to go if her younger brother goes with
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Noi and Dockeo are putting on make up and waiting
for customers. The dealer comes in to use the service. He drinks and
dances with the girls. Nock also arrives, it is his first time in
such a club. He looks around, he doesn’t know what to do until
the girls invite him for a drink. The dealer recognizes him and comes
over to ask for the money that Nock promised to pay him two weeks
ago. When Nock tells him he doesn’t have any money, the dealer
hits him and Nock falls to the floor, out cold. The girls applaud
the dealer for his strength and continue to drink and dance.
Bouachan enters the night club, thinking it is a restaurant and looks
around quite surprised at how dark it is. Her friends, Noi and Dockeo,
see her standing at the door, they offer her a seat and cold drink.
She recognizes the dealer, who offers her a glass of beer, but she
refuses to take it. The dealer starts to slow dance with Noi. Bouachan
looks at them with surprise as no one dances that way in the village.
When Noi goes round the side of the club to the guest house, Bouachan
asks Dockeo what is going on. Dockeo makes light of it and tells her
it is often expected of them as bar girls. Bouachan is quite shocked
and doesn’t know what to think.
Nock who is slowly regaining consciousness, groans. His sister sees
for the first time in the darkness that someone is lying on the floor,
goes over to help him and discovers it is her brother lying there.
Then she is angry, she tells Dockeo bluntly that they should take
better care of their guests.
Bouachan helps her brother up and takes him home. |
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A brother and sister are walking in the rain past
the sweet shop and see The father is waiting for his kids in the
shop. Bouachan and Nock arrive. The father asks about their trip
in town. Bouachan tells him everything that happened with in town
and is worried about his son, who still has a black eye. He reasons
gently with him and tells him to take better care of himself and
his sister. Nock is surprised and glad, that his father isn’t
shouting at him. He feels sorry enough for himself already as his
face and ribs hurt.
Noi comes to Bouachan’s shop again with full of tears. She
hasn’t felt well for quite some time, and she suspect that
she has AIDS from unprotected sexual intercourse with customers.
Bouachan’s father advises Noi to have a blood test. Bouachan
accompanies Noi to the district hospital.
The father and Nock work together in the field. The father is trying
to help his son to make a new start and to keep away from drugs.
The team sing a song and dance together... |
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