The main character in the film is a real person in history - the hero of the Vietnamese people's army, Cu Chinh Lan, set in the middle of the resistance war against the French (circa 1951) on the battlefield in North Vietnam.

Phương and his sister Vân reunite after years of separation in the war, but their clashing political affiliations soon set them apart.

In colonial French Indochina, a woman sells her daughter and four dogs in a desperate attempt to save her husband from torture when they can’t pay off the government taxes.

Vietnamese guerrillas move into a village adjoining a French/US airstrip and recruit locals to help them bring it down.

A young girl searches for her father, a soldier in the PAVN, after her mother and sister are killed during Christmas Bombings.

A story about a Catholic Village by the sea in Northern Vietnam in the early 60's, where people lacked faith in the new Communist regime.

Two classmates volunteer to work in logistics across the forests of Trường Sơn mountains.