FOOTBALL FIELD ON THE CLOUDS

A Lu is a minority teenager of the Mong tribe who lives in a
small village called Ta Xua, on the ever-cloudy peak in
North Vietnam. He plays on an amateur football team as a
goalkeeper and enjoys playing at what they call a field,
which is just an open land at the edge of the mountain.
Most of the people in the village cultivate tea from an
ancient forest on the top of the mountain by Hmongʼs
traditional method.
It is just the same with A Lu. He and his family own a small
tea farm and take good care of it. And his dream is to make
enough money to buy his wife a washing machine
someday.
A Lu follows Kien, a man who left the city to start his new
life in this village. A Lu learns from Kien about the
preciousness of the humble and sustainable way of life at
the top of the mountain, in exchange he teaches him how
to cultivate tea in Hmongʼs way.
They focus on their work at the tea farm in the daytime and
enjoy playing football after they finish their work. However,
in the small village, tourists start to come for its beautiful
landscape and nature. And at the same time, the real estate
fever bubble is coming along too.
While then, another Hmong guy, Man, starts his challenge
to build an artificial football field with lights and a net to
surround the place. Their dream was to have a field where
they could enjoy football later in the darkness and play
safely. Man sold his land to earn the money to build the new
field. Nowadays it's becoming more popular for the
Hmongs to give up their lands, sell them to live a life in a
city style. A Lu has also been tempted and started thinking
of selling his land.
How can A Lu keep the Hmong tradition while he
increasingly wants to live the city lifestyle? And will Ta Xua
still can keep its true beauty when this urbanization comes?