Duyen Anh

Based on a true story, after the US withdrawal and the fall of South Vietnam to the communist forces in 1975, many people are sent to reeducation camps. Several desperate boys in one of the camps begin planing their escape.

Pregnant after being sexually violated by her stepfather as a punishment for starting a relationship with a professor, Tran Thi Diem Chau runs away from home to live with her friend Thu Hong, a sympathetic nightclub dancer who pays for her abortion and education at a Catholic boarding school. Just when Diem Chau begins to leave behind her painful past, the young woman receives the news of Thu Hong's injuries from an acid attack.

Wishing to turn over a new leaf, a reformed gangster reluctantly agrees to take on one last deal to earn some money that will let him settle down.

An exasperated intellectual bourgeoisie leaves his home for the criminal underworld and becomes the second-in-command for 1970s Saigon most feared gangster, Dai Cathay.