Born in a deep forest without any medical support, four children and their parents have been living in an isolated area in central Vietnam, a five-hour walk (20km) from the nearest village. The 50-year-old father has spent 32 years in the forest, at the border of the two forests Tuy Phong and Song Mao in Binh Thuan Province. Of the four siblings, the oldest brother is 16 years old and the youngest sister is almost three years old. Since they have been living in a forest and rarely communicating with people outside their family, they can barely speak Vietnamese. They can only muster a sentence of five or six words although they can understand the language when they hear it. It took Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper journalists over ten hours to cross five mountains on paths through forests, bushes, and steep hills to come to a flat plot of land about 100 square meters wide. A house stands amid huge ancient trees; it is the residence ...