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.
Nhu Quynh
as Nết
Vũ Tự Lẫm
as Chi
Vũ Đình Thân
as An
Cao Khương
as Bình
Kim Xuân
as Nết (20 years later)
Thi-Loan Nguyen
as Nhung
Minh Trâm
as Nết's Mother
Hoàng Mạnh Sinh
as Nết's Uncle
Nguyễn Ninh
as Bình's Father
Nguyễn Thị Ngải
as Quan họ Big Sister
