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- Shan State in Myanmar is home to a rich culture filled with ancient songs, traditional dances and beliefs. It is also a place where civil war has been raging for over sixty years. Shan folk singer Nan Mya Han was a star when she was young. Now she is older her metaphorical verses reflect the deep sense of loss that pervades a people battered by Myanmar's ruinous politics. Interweaving her songs with compelling scenes of rituals around healing, death and birth, the film transcends the purely observational to become a multi-layered, elliptical exploration of decay and impermanence that is both moving and totally mesmerizing.
- Nan is a high school girl who was born and raised in Tokyo but whose family come from Myanmar. She thinks of herself as Japanese but when Nan finds out that her father is planning on returning to his home and taking her with him, she finds out his history, how he took part in Myanmar's democratization campaign 30 years ago and emigrated to Japan as a refugee. His heart has always been with his mother country but for Nan, Japan is home.
- In the broken family, father Kyaw Htet, mother Eaindray and their daughter Thu Thu who hates her father, living separately. When they happened to go grandma birthday which holds every year, Eaindray is busy with her works so that she asks help to his husband to send their daughter Thu Thu. What will happen between clumsy dad and his daughter on their way to the birthday party?
- The revengeful ghost, inside the century-aged manor which is built during Anglo-Burma era, rampages when the reincarnation of its past life rivals step into the manor, the place where they all once died for its greed.
- Three daring BBC presenters continue their journey through the Shan region of Burma. Later on they discover another challenge waiting for them at the river Kwai.
- Simon travels to a jade market in the old Royal capital Mandalay. In the mountains he attends the fire balloon festival and meets a Shan minority rebel army who have been fighting the Burmese military. He also visits an elephant sanctuary and an primitive oil mine.