 Ali's bug was inspired by her fascination with Buddhism and the exploration of diasporic identities.The project developed when Ali returned to her birthplace of Cambodia as a means of inhabiting and recording Cambodia's changing rural and metropolitan landscapes, and of negotiating her culturally mixed background.The series depicts an art deco cinema, Golden Temple, to make reference to what was known as the "Golden Era" of Cambodian Cinema, a period which the younger generation looks back on fondly and is depicted as so in the series, in which the Buddhist Bug tries to find identity and "otherness".