Writing
A malfunctioned pregnant robot escaped to a state where robots are banned. She now tries to untangle her fragmented mind before being terminated.
To experience snow and learn German, the young Vietnamese woman Trúc Lâm moves to a little town in the Erz Mountains. During a guided tour of a mine, she leaves her group and reaches the other side of the mountain through a secondary shaft. The world there is similar to the one she left – only all the people are different. She meets Duc, who is also from Vietnam and whose parents have an Asian snack bar. And she meets a mysterious spirit who offers to make a deal with her to enable her return to her old world.
Erik, a German man, meets with Thu, the mother of his deceased lover, Minh. Thu wants to bring Minh's ashes back to Vietnam, but Erik is not ready for that just yet.
The Spirit of Wine:Plum explores the notion of human love by following Trung, who, after breaking up with his lover, waits outside her place for 40 minutes every day, hoping that fate will reunite them. But fate takes many forms.