![]() ![]() Lakshmi faces an unbelievable fate: she has been sold into child prostitution. Instead she brings young Lakshmi to happiness house in India. What she doesn’t know is, that her new Auntie Bimla never intended to find her a job as a maid. With the picture of gaining enough money to buy a tin roof Lakshmi willingly agrees and is thankful that she can help her Ama. After a especially rainy monsoon that washed away all of the family’s crops Lakshmi’s stepfather tells her that she’ll have to go to the city and find a job as a maid to support the family. Nonetheless she and her mother excel at finding the simple pleasures in live even if the step father gambles away all their money every night… A bad man is better than no man. She lives together with her mother, stepfather, a small goat and a small baby brother in a hut that can not protect them from the rain. ![]() Lakshmi is a thirteen years old “hill girl” from a small mountain village in rural Nepal. ![]()
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