A Chinese woman searches across Cambodia for her ex-lover, who has disappeared mysteriously. She travels from Phnom Penh to Sihanoukville, along the proposed route of the Funan Techo Canal, using the symbology of their relationship to unravel clues. The country waits apprehensively for construction to begin on the massive Belt and Road funded waterway that will displace thousands.
“My friend was 26 when she left China. She told me she wanted to be eaten by a crocodile. To die in a mythic way, like the Cambodian princess who was consumed by her lover. If she couldn’t make it out alive, that’s the way she wanted to go. Carried south by the Mekong River, out of China forever.”