
“The war is over. But a personal battle continues to rage.”
The residents of Ho Chi Minh City face modernization amid widespread poverty. A retired American Marine arrives on a search for his daughter, whom he abandoned at the end of the Vietnam War. Elsewhere, a cyclo driver falls for a troubled prostitute and schemes to raise money so he can spend time with her. Additionally, a young women begins harvesting lotuses for a writer suffering from leprosy, and a child trinket seller loses his traveling case.
A deeply humanistic and poetic look at life in Ho Chi Minh City. It feels like a gentle, melancholic poem, exploring love, loss, and resilience amidst poverty and the lingering shadows of war.

















