A tear falls down the cheek of a young girl with long black hair, dressed in a pink blouse. Female singer Oeun Sreymom begins to tell her story in a voiceover: a tragic narrative of a young woman sent away from her family and sweetheart to work as a housemaid, only to find that she had actually been trafficked into prostitution.
“If I go in the water, I meet a crocodile. If I go in the street, I meet a tiger,” the song goes in Khmer.
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