“A young girl with a hand on her face” This photo was taken at the National Dance Theatre. The young girls’ father tried to comfort her because she was afraid of the  foreigner, the first she had ever seen. The photo was chosen as the front cover of magazines throughout the world, a symbol of the Vietnam war.
			On the 4th of October 1972  Thomas Billhardt  took a photo of a dead child, killed by a bomb attack on Hanoi. Another one of  Billhardt’s internationally published photos symbolised the Vietnam War. This time he came back to Vietnam to visit the young child’s family and to present them with the photo.
	But he also has good memories of Hanoi in 1969. He met a young pretty girl on the National Street Nr.1. Her name was Hong Li. She worked with the brigade repairing damaged roads. With the aid of an interpreter he soon learned of the primitive conditions the young girl lived under, far away from her home.  The search for Hong Li  is main theme of the films.
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