Until the Orchid Blooms

Neang is an indigenous Bunon single mother of four living in northeastern Cambodia. Her village, home, and forest have been flooded by a hydroelectric dam near the Mekong river. After escaping the flood on the mainland, industrialists collude with the government to pressure her family and community to leave their ancestral land. Neang fights with her community to preserve their remaining ancestral landscape and the unity of her community and family, even as her children’s dreams veer further from traditional ways of life.