Tam and Cam — Southeast Asia (Lesser-Known) | Bedtime World Tour
Tonight we travel to Vietnam, to the rice country where the paddies go flat and green to the edge of the sky. Tam does all the work in a house that belongs to her stepmother and her stepsister, and the one thing in the world that is glad to see her is a small silver fish living in the well behind it — which she feeds every day out of her own rice, and which her stepmother eventually notices. This is the Vietnamese Cinderella, older than most, and we stop it at the river in the late afternoon rather than following it to the end.
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