The westernised pursuit of wealth and status, or the Four Noble Truths of Buddhism - not that you would ever be given a choice from the womb, but where would you rather be? Han Sen is from a small village in 1970's Cambodia, bought up with Buddhist monks into the desperately horrifying Khmer Rouge period. Roger is from Surrey, England, the only child of a City of London financier. He eventually finds a form of contentedness at the local sailing club. This story of diverse parallel lives goes some way to addressing the West to East, money vs principle divide as it moves gradually and...
The westernised pursuit of wealth and status, or the Four Noble Truths of Buddhism - not that you would ever be given a choice from the womb, but wher...