Balloon (12A)

 

Tibet, 1980s: Shepherd Dargye and his wife Drolkar have three boys: one teenager who they scrape enough money together to send to school, and two younger children who stay at home. These two boisterous youngest sons have blown up their parents’ condoms like balloons. 

 

Not only does this outrage their entire village, but more practically, they have no more condoms and China has recently introduced its one child policy so they can’t have any more.