Tiny southeast asian Laos is a country of lines, tangents and hidden boundaries. Behind every rock, around waterholes and along both sides of the Ho Chi Minh Trail, invisible borders mark a clans language, a tigers habitat and some 80 million bombs, or UXO's (unexploded ordnance), still waiting to detonate. To cross a line might invite death, yet the laotians have no choice. The brave work the rice fields full of explosives, the desperate gather the UXO's to sell as scrap metal, to use in constructing cottages, to melt as spoons to sell at the local marked. In average, one person a day is killed or maimed. The 80 million UXO's are the legacy of a secret war in Laos. From 1963-1972 the CIA secretly bombed the country - making it the most heavily bombed country on Earth per capita - in an attempt to stop Vietnamese supply routes going through the eastern jungles. As the worlds eyes where fixed on the war in Vietnam, the bombing of Laos went on for a decade almost without being noticed by the public. As it ended in 1972, Henry Kissinger - one of the men believed by many to be the decision maker - won the Nobel Peace Prize in Paris. Today de-mining organizations have cleared below 1% of the contaminated area, which is roughly one third of Laos. The country is poor and the cost is high. Though using american bombing maps, every year the monsoon further transport the bombs to new areas, further hindering agriculture and socioeconomic development. According to the national de-mining organization, UXO Laos, it will be another 150 years before the bombs have been cleared: the last victim of the secret war in Laos has not yet been born.

For several years the danes have been named 'the happiest people on Earth' by the UN's 'World Happiness Report'. Most foreigners believe the danes are happy due to several factors, such as the 52 weeks of maternal leave, the health care system, the weird feeling called 'hygge' and the gender equality. Even the frequent use of bikes are thought to make the danes happy. The world truly has many opinions, when looking at danes. But if the danes are truly that happy, what do they then worry about? And what do the danes think, when asked to look at themselves?

In the children's village in the mountains of Xieng Khouang, Laos, orphans get a new home and a new mother. There are very few orphanages in the poor country, so this is one of the only places the children can go. In the village, they join a new family and receive nine sisters and brothers along with a new mother. The mothers choose the path as a lifestyle. They choose to take care of the children until the latter is 23, chose not to have biological children of their own and choose never to get married. Instead they dedicate their lives to the well-being of the orphans, and to give the children a safe and loving childhood.