A family living in poverty faces financial difficulties while striving to educate their daughters. The mother resorts to extraordinary measures to procure the traditional silk dresses needed for her kids to attend school.
Follows a South Vietnamese soldier during the fall of Saigon in 1975.
An old man chances upon a ceramic teapot while working as a gravedigger. Fervently believing that the teapot is a valuable piece of antique, he risks life and death to protect it against the concern of his family.
Ten years after signing up as an army nurse, a woman returns to her village with a son in tow. Because she has no proof that she was ever married, the conservative village folk shun her.
The president of a small village is appointed to be the minister for population planning, a controversial decision for the residents and his wife who is trying for another baby.