It tells about Ha - a young state cadre, is in the bourgeois re-education board, but the object of her "rehabilitation" is… her mother-in-law, a big bourgeois. She had to face a fierce struggle in the place where she had just became a bride, only to have to sacrifice her life in the end.
Upon meeting a young Vietnamese soldier during his brief stay in the Lao mountains, a woman begins recalling to her daughter episodes of her life ever since she had to leave Northwest Vietnam in 1952, including her fateful encounter with a Lao mother.
