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.

• Open City Films
• October Films
• Duong Don
• Nguyễn Thị Ngọc Hiệp
• Diep Bui
• Huu Duoc Nguyen
• Harvey Keitel
• Manh Cuong Tran
• Lola Guimond
• Phat Trieu Hoang