Through daily routines in a rural village, an indigenous elder couple recall their strange marriage to their grand-daughter, and sometimes to each other, in the changing rhythm of nature around them.
A lesbian daughter in rural Cambodia was forced to marry a man. But she never lost faith in true identity; she rose and failed, then she stood up and fought again for the freedom to become her own self.
Thy, the young son of a cricket farmer, mourns his mother’s passing and faces the arrival of his father’s new bride and her daughter. The film is a portrait of a day in Thy’s world of silent grief and hopeful dreams painted over a canvas of rural Cambodia.
In Cambodia, Neang, an indigenous mother, tries to rebuild her life after her village is swallowed up by a dam reservoir. Despite pressure from the government and industrialists to leave her ancestral land, she fights to preserve the unity of her community and her family. Between memories and connection with nature, Until the Orchid Blooms recounts his journey of resilience.