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.
Duong Don
as Hai
Nguyễn Thị Ngọc Hiệp
as Kien An
Diep Bui
as Lan
Huu Duoc Nguyen
as Woody
Harvey Keitel
as James Hager
Mạnh Cường
as Teacher Dao
Lola Guimond
as Hager's Daughter
Phat Trieu Hoang
as Huy, Dao's Headman
Hong Son Le
as Binh, Cyclo Driver
