Nguyen Van Day

A young couple, whose love blooms from their mutual appreciation of Chingiz Aitmatov's "Tales of the Mountains and the Steppes", struggles with their personal romanticism and faith in each other as the novel becomes subjected to a new era's changing ideas about art.

L'histoire d'un jeune coursier qui vit dans la banlieue pauvre d'Ho Chi Minh-Ville au Vietnam avec son grand-pere et ses deux soeurs.

Dans les années 1920, le Vietnam est une colonie française et des rebellions contre cette domination éclatent dans le pays. Pour lutter contre ces troubles, la puissance coloniale met en place des groupes d'autochtones. Lo Ven Cuong est chargé d'assassiner un leader de la résistance. Mais lorsqu'il rencontre la fille de celui-ci, une combattante farouche, experte en arts martiaux, ses sentiments comme ses idées vont changer...

Set along the southern coast of Vietnam during the French occupation in the 1940s, water is everywhere, giving life and bringing decay and rot. Kim is 15; his father and step-mother have two buffalo, their lifeline as subsistence rice farmers. During the rainy season, there's no grass and the buffalo are starving. Kim volunteers to take the beasts inland to find food. On this coming-of-age journey, Kim sees men mistreat women, men fight with men, and French taxes rob the poor. He works for Lap, a buffalo herder whose past is entangled with Kim's parents, and he makes friends who will lead him to his place in the world.

A poetic glimpse of life in Vietnam War