A beggar holds an unformed creature in her arms, his head is gigantic, he looks dead but breathes, he is about 4 or 5 years old, probably his son.
Behind them a lady takes a picture with her cell phone at a table of people who are eating, drinking and celebrating by the roadside.
Around the neon lights, the sounds of the street, the smoke rising from the stalls of the sellers of noodles and rice.
Everywhere the scooters and the backpackers who are drinking absurd amounts of beer in countless little streets along the city center, where at a small table of children over 9 years old, some with red or yellow crests, play cards imitating their parents with their money bets.
Two old women around 80 years old, sitting on two small chairs on the sidewalk in the midst of all this crazy traffic, it seems they do not even notice it. A little farther on, two chubby kids around 5 or 6 years old, dressed in identical yellow shirts, come out of a shop-house raising their arms in a festive way, singing, laughing, dancing, jumping, moving in the same way as they were synchronized, they cross without not even take a look at the busy road, coming unharmed on the other side.
A lady sells me a soup of noodles, she’s not that young but is very beautiful. She has the face of a dreamer, a look that bumps into distant things. On his ankle she tattooed a little bird, probably the freedom we all dream of.
The Tet (Tết Nguyên Đánè) is the New Year that is celebrated in Vietnam and is the most important holiday of the year. It lasts a few days and takes place according to the lunar calendar. Vietnamese families prepare special foods for the occasion and usually do a thorough cleaning of the house.
