Trần Thuỳ Mai

Hanh is a dutiful wife and school teacher in a rural Vietnamese village who appears to enjoy a happy marriage. Childless, she insists her husband Phoung, the local school headmaster, take a second wife to bear him a baby. But in the small village, their secret is impossible to keep for long.

Hieu and Lan are two close friends who come from the same orphanage, but their relationship fractures when a lavish, hedonistic heiress pays attention to Hieu and promises him a career upswing in Saigon’s art world.