The 3 interwoven stories unfold the terrifying Vietnamese urban legends revolving around an ill-fated superstar behind the iconic sugarcane lady poster, a has-been circus magician making a deal with the devil, and a sinister spirit trapped in an eerily desolate...
After the Geneva Convention, Viet Minh cadres are gathered to the North. There are also many who secretly stayed. Among them is Robert Nguyen Thanh Luan. He returns to Vinh Long, part of the diocese of Bishop Peter Ngo Dinh Thuc, who has known his Catholic family for long. The bishop adopts him into the Ngo family, where he begins associating with Ngo Dinh Nhu, the Vice President and Presidential Consultant of the Republic of Vietnam.
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.
Trâm Anh rejects the advance from wealthy suitors and instead works as a taxi driver to support her family; the hot-tempered and blunt young girl enjoys winning over the male colleagues who mocks her driving in racing shows, helping girls fight off bullies and spending her free time at a martial arts club. On one day at work, Trâm Anh encounters a new client and her antithesis, the rich and pampered Tuấn. Soon, a string of incidents will strike up a spark between the unlikely pair.
A Vietnamese-American photographer decides to throw his wedding in Saigon. A day before the wedding, he ends up stranded in a seaside town due to his friends’ prank at the bachelor’s party. Penniless, he reluctantly agrees to be act as a strange woman’s boyfriend in exchange for cash to buy train tickets back to Saigon.
A man suffers from a recurring vision of the pregnant woman he killed in a car crash.
Truc, a movie director, keeps hearing a lot of bad things about what have happened in a mysterious abandoned house in Da Lat, in which she is interested. Therefore she decides to bring her film crew there to film a horror movie.
Hai Cũ, a notorious outlaw robbing from the rich to give to the poor, writes to Hồ Chí Minh hoping to secure pardon for his subordinates and is then sent to work as a foreman for a military company. The company's officer turns out to be the student who has accidentally helped him to escape the police many years ago.
Follows a young cyclo driver on his poverty-driven descent into criminality in modern-day Ho Chi Minh City. The boy's struggles to scratch out a living for his two sisters and grandfather in the mean streets of the city lead to petty crime on behalf of a mysterious Madame from whom he rents his cyclo.
A happy-go-lucky watermelon vendor is mistaken for the missing goalie and gets dragged to play in their upcoming match.
Three close friends venture to investigate the identity of a handsome man who frequents the cafe opposite their high school
Stories told along the river: a woman reunites with her ex-lover at a hydroelectric plant; meanwhile, a young man travels downstream to a temple in search of a cure for his insomnia.