Here is the story of the arrival of electricity in Hathine, a tiny, isolated village in the forbidden mountains of Northern Laos, one of the last Communist countries in the world, on the borders of China and Vietnam. Refrigerators will keep food fresh for longer. Children will do their homework under the streetlamps. The first shops strung with multi-coloured lights appear, and in them the first cold drinks that any villager has tasted. Electricity brings progress, unquestionably. But does that progress bring happiness?
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