SAYKOMSA

In the apartment, there are gifts from old friends in Vietnam: reminders of a different history. But the time is now, 1998: The «market economy», that's our common fate. A construction-site on the edges of «West lake» in Hanoi. This lake in the centre of Hanoi is being gradually walled in by huge modern hotels. The village ist disappearing. Everybody knoes: It's just a matter of money now. Who's rich and who's poor, who can and who can't. That is how it is: «C'est comme ça ...» (Robert Kramer)

This film is part of the short film program Lessons and Lesions: Vietnam.