Los herederos del opio

Opium has left a vacuum that has changed Indochina's physical and human geography. After a golden 20th century, the plantations have practically disappeared. Without poppies dotting the mountainsides, the ethnic group that cultivated them has been stripped of all power. Doomed to poverty, and eternally suspects for their grandparents' loyalty to the French and American invaders, the heirs of opium fight so that their identity does not die. This is the story of people who stand up and others who give up. Stories of peoples succumbing to overwhelming assimilation, of families under siege by the army in the depths of the jungle, or desperately falling into the arms of Christian preachers. They are also the paradoxes of the authoritarian regimes that govern the region, capable of anything to stay afloat. A five-star hotel with views of the cliff where dissidents were thrown, streets of sex slaves behind a mural of patriotic propaganda, or fast food chains where the drug that financed the colonial adventure was consumed.