Chong Character Analysis

A woman in Ro Leap whose husband is murdered by the Khmer Rouge. When her two-year-old son then dies of starvation. she carries his dead body around for days, until the village chief forces her to bury him. Just a few days later, her young daughters, desperate for food, accidentally eat poisonous mushrooms and suffer painful deaths in front of Chong. Having lost any sense of grounding. Chong becomes known as the village “crazy lady” and walks around talking to her children as if they are still alive. At one point she gives Ma a bowl of earthworms to eat, saying if only she had thought to eat them sooner her daughters would still be alive. She eventually dies from food poisoning, just like her daughters.