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.

• DirectorTony Bui
• Release30 April 1999
• GenreDrama
• Duration1h 45m
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  7.234
  32 reviews
• Productions

  Open City Films, October Films, Giai Phong Film Studio