Le Papier ne peut pas envelopper la braise

Phnom Penh, 2006. A face bathed in red light… “The clear sign of a social rift in a country that has experienced decades of war, it’s the way that the bodies of the destitute are economically and politically exploited: the soldier fathers who died in combat have left behind children who will become underpaid workers or, even worse, prostitutes. Violated lives, ravaged destinies, bodies that became marketable goods (…) (Rithy Panh)