Alain (not his real name), twenty years old, divorced with a child over a year old. Living in a small shack, the shack looks like a small piece of place surrounded by mats.
Ah Dong (pseudonym) is an oriental man of about forty years old, who recently found a Lao girl in his twenties as a wife in Laos, and took his wife to his mother-in-law's house to go out. Bumped into Alain.
Ah Dong asked Alain the reason for the divorce, and Alain said that her husband sucked bad things, and it was not good for her not to work, so he chose to divorce!
In some places in rural Laos, divorce is very miserable for women, and the in-laws cannot stay, and the mother's family cannot go. Their mother's family also built a shack for them to live in. Until she herself has the ability to be in a better place, or to marry again.
Alain is only twenty years old this year, and like other Laotians, he has time to learn a few Chinese. Maybe everyone thinks that some people in their twenties are still in school, but different places have different customs and customs!
Although school is free in rural Laos, they start working as teenagers. Some families lack labour and drop out of school early. Alain's fate is also a portrayal of many poor Laotian children!
Maybe people think they shouldn't have lived like this. It's a different life!