Trong, a self-proclaimed king of a garbage dump, falls in love with the poor flower seller Thuy.
The vibrations adolescence, nostalgia injured ones in the battlefield, the dreaming and wondering aimlessly early ... has created space for a story fairy with her An.
The childhood of Ly Thai To, a Vietnamese monarch.
The inhabitants of a small island in the delta of the turbulent Red River are doomed to poverty: floods wash away crops, livestock, and even people. From generation to generation, a legend is passed down about a kind dragon that can drink the river's water and save the village. But the dragon is a fairy tale, and the people have decided to block the treacherous river themselves. With extraordinary perseverance, fighting against the elements, the village population builds protective fortifications around the island.
A general who devoted his life to the communist cause, retires, only to find that his household is in disarray, his grown children money-grubbing, and Vietnamese society far from the rosy picture of equality he'd imagined he'd helped make it.
In a time of chaos and conflicts, a talented musician falls in love with an upper-class royal mandarin.
An old man dreams of escaping poverty and securing a better future for his family in retirement through winning a lottery, though luck is never on his side.
A soldier returns home after the war, only to finds out his family thinks he is dead, and his wife has married another man.
A peasant opens a lucrative dog meat shop but becomes a subject of extreme loathing from the local people. When his shop is finally burned down, the man enlists the help of his son and nephews to leave their home and work as sawyers in a logging camp. However, his scheming and cruel nature seems to persist even in the vast forests.
Relationships inside a family of illegal loggers become turbulent when the son falls in love with his father's lover.
When they discover that they are pregnant, a young couple in Hanoi resort to desperate (and bizarre) measures to raise money for an abortion.
During the war, a woman learns that her husband is an army deserter.
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.
Sai is forced to marry Tuyet at the age of ten and leaves his home by the river wharf to live with an old man named Kien. As the war against France accelerates, Sai enlists to fight and falls in love with another woman named Huong. While the affair is fated not to last, Tuyet struggles to keep her marriage together.
At a dance bar, a former soldier and now company director chances upon a hostess whose appearance resembles the young girl that saved his life many years ago in the War.
A thrilling and haunting account of historical events in the Trịnh clan in the late 18th century with the central conflict between lord Trịnh Sâm who was feeble and indecisive, and a cunning and manipulative concubine named Đặng Thị Huệ. Based on the novel of the same name by Nguyễn Huy Tưởng.