Ms. Thuan lives in a coastal village. Tuc Scar is her neighbor with a bad past: he was imprisoned for stealing state property. Tuc Scar suspects that Thuan was the one who denounced him, so he hates her very much. Released from prison, he intends to take revenge. But while in prison, his son was...
On a festive spring day in 1940, two young quan họ singers fall in love. But their relationship is soon ruthlessly disrupted by class injustices, imposed upon both—and many other Vietnamese—by the ongoing French colonial rule and the looming Japanese occupation.
