Duong Don, Nguyễn Thị Ngọc Hiệp, Diep Bui, Huu Duoc Nguyen, Harvey Keitel, Manh Cuong Tran, Lola Guimond, Phat Trieu Hoang, Hong Son Le
The residents of Ho Chi Minh City face modernization amid widespread poverty. A retired American Marine arrives on a search for his daughter, whom he abandoned at the end of the Vietnam War. Elsewhere, a cyclo driver falls for a troubled prostitute and schemes to raise money so he can spend time with her. Additionally, a young women begins harvesting lotuses for a writer suffering from leprosy, and a child trinket seller loses his traveling case.