A series of portraits' of the people who comprise the mosaic of a typical north-eastern Thai village, this text describes such characters as 'the half-Chinese', 'the fortune teller', 'Miss cotton bud', 'native entrepreneur' and 'bar boy'. A series of 'portraits' of the people who comprise the mosaic of a typical north-eastern Thai village, this text describes such characters as 'the half-Chinese', 'the fortune teller', 'Miss cotton bud', 'native entrepreneur' and 'bar boy'. Interspersed between these portraits are 'themes', such as gambling, Songkran, electricity and noise,'