Heartland

Janus Metz; Sine Plambech

 

2018

In the small fishing community of Thy in northern Denmark, 926 Thai women are married to Danish men. The trend started 25 years ago when a former sex worker from Pattaya married a Thy native and has since helped lonely local men and impoverished women from her village find someone to share life with. Four of these Thai-Danish couples are followed over ten years and two continents, in an epic and intimately observed family chronicle about the needs, longings and dreams that unite and separate us across global boundaries.

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